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Flag of Department of Flores

The Flag of Flores, Uruguay, is rectangular and divided into 4 quarters: the upper left and the lower right in red, and the other two in blue.

Flag of Department of Flores
Coat of arms
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Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
2:33 wide for every 2 high. 989 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
198713 de mayo de 1987 · 39 years ago
Colours
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Yellow
  • White
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
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Take a closer look

  1. The quartered cloth

  2. 1

    The red quarters

  3. 2

    The gold cross

  4. 3

    The departmental coat of arms

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

Paño de proporción 2:3, cuartelado en gules (rojo) y azur (azul) alternos, con una cruz de oro (amarillo) hasta los bordes y el escudo departamental en el centro.

Cuartel 1.º (asta, arriba)
de gules.
Cuartel 2.º (batiente, arriba)
de azur.
Cuartel 3.º (asta, abajo)
de azur.
Cuartel 4.º (batiente, abajo)
de gules.
Cruz
de oro, de dos filetes paralelos en cada brazo, hasta los bordes.
Escudo
centrado en el cruce de la cruz, en un óvalo de plata (blanco) con borde de oro.

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

The full story

How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.

How it came about

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Test what you have read about the flag of Departamento de Flores.

  1. 1. Which one is the flag of Departamento de Flores?

  2. 2. Which of these elements appears on the flag?

  3. 3. What are the proportions (height:width) of the flag?

  4. 4. In which year was the current flag adopted?

Sources

Text based on the article “Bandera de Flores” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Credits

Flag image: Goldsztern, Wikimedia Commons · CC0.

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