White with a dark blue coat of arms and four white fish around it, inside a shield divided in yellow and red with a white shell in the centre.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, white, with the coat of arms of the state in the centre.
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The flag of Baja California Sur is a white field with a two-layer coat of arms. The outer one is dark blue with four white fish, and inside there is a shield divided in yellow and red with a shell.
Baja California Sur is a state in north-western Mexico. No approval date is recorded in the reference file.
The coat of arms has two layers: a dark blue ground with four white fish around it —one at the top, one at the bottom and one on each side —and inside it a shield divided in yellow and red with a white shell in the centre.
No earlier versions are documented.
White
the background of the field, plain, in a single colour.
Outer shield
a dark blue ground with four white fish, one at the top, one at the bottom and one on each side.
Inner shield
divided vertically, yellow on the left and red on the right.
Shell
white, a scallop shell, centred over the line of division.
The four fish are not oriented the same way: each one points towards a different edge, following the frame. That makes the eye go round the coat of arms instead of reading it in a line.
The inner shield is divided in yellow and red. The white shell sits exactly over the line of division, so each half of the shell falls on a different colour.
A fish inside a shield is usually one figure among others. Here the fish are not part of the shield: they frame it from outside, as if they defined the perimeter of the emblem.
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Text based on the article “Bandera de Baja California Sur” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Gobierno de Baja California Sur, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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