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Paillaco commune (Chile)

Comuna de Paillaco

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[Paillaco flag]
image by António Martins, 24 August 2024
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About the flag

It is a white over light blue ascending diagonal 2:3 flag with quasi-heraldic emblem over all, showing inside a Chilean-style shield divided per pall reversed a tree (dexter), a cow head (sinister) and some sort of fruit (base).
António Martins, 24 August 2024

It appears clearly in this weblinks:
http://www.munipaillaco.cl/images/fotos%20galeria/galer%C3%ADa_velada%20coronacion/9.jpg.JPG
http://www.munipaillaco.cl/images/fotos%20galeria/2005/HOMENAJE%20PADRE%20ALEJANDRO/DSCN0022.JPG
Sergio Arenas, 25 October 2007

These urls, as sadly usual, are neither pointing to their original contents not redirecting to a new location of same. The context pages were archived, but the photos on them were not:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080703131348/http://www.munipaillaco.cl:80/images/fotos%20galeria/2006/Velada_coronaci%C3%B3n_reina.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20061203053652/http://www.munipaillaco.cl:80/images/fotos%20galeria/2005/despedida_padre_alejandro.htm

The current communal website (totaly craptastic, BTW, needing some mad skills to bypass the splash screen) doesn’t seem to include anything on the flag — neither photos nor written description or even reference, but it does show two slightly different versions of the logo, neither of which is the one shown on the flag:
https://www.munipaillaco.cl/wp-content/themes/munipaillaco-theme/images/logo_muni_transparente.png
https://www.munipaillaco.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2b600c32-7b11-471c-becb-9dc76e5913b5.jpeg

However, in the Wikimedia Commons the very same Sergio Arenas / Xaruco Ponce uploaded in 2009 (two years after this report), a version of this that is slightly different: 3:4 descending diagona with much smaller emblem, sourced to other examples of local useage: One to a meanwhile vanished website http://www.goredelosrios.cl/fotografias.htm, and the other to http://www.munipaillaco.cl/, the official communal website, which, as mentioned, was meanwhile modified. The emblem is depicted in this 2009 version of the flag in yet another rendition.
António Martins, 24 August 2024