The flag of Apurímac (Peru) adds seven stripes of colour to the flagpole and a white field with a coat of arms: the department of the “god who speaks”.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a white flag with a stripe (stripe: each band of colour) of seven colours against the flagpole (the pole it is hoisted on) and the coat of arms over the rest of the field.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Seven stripes of colour by the mast —yellow, orange, blue, violet, red, gold and green— open the flag of Apurímac, and the rest of the field is white with a coat of arms of mountains, a lagoon, a dancer and a basket of gold coins. It is the banner of the regional government of this Andean department in southern Peru.
Apurímac —whose name, from the Quechua apu rimaq, means “the god who speaks” or “great oracle”— was organised as a region with its own government on 18 November 2002, like the other Peruvian departments. Its flag brings together the two languages usual in these banners: a stripe of colours by the mast, adding seven tones, and the coat of arms on a white field, surrounded by laurels.
No versions are documented: the image in circulation is that of the regional government, reproduced as a free file by Wikimedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) on the basis of the official coat of arms.
No rule consulted explains the coat of arms; what follows is the usual reading of its pieces:
Snow-capped peak and lagoon
the high Andean mountain and water, in the upper quarter.
Dancer
the folklore of the region, in the lower left quarter.
Basket full of gold
mining, in the lower right.
Guacamayo
the bird of the high forest that appears beside the lake.
Apurímac is not named after a chieftain or a city, but after a river whose Quechua name, apu rimaq, is translated as “the god who speaks” or “great oracle”.
The territory was the heart of the Chancas, the warrior people who came close to defeating the Incas before the army of Pachacútec stopped them, according to the historical tradition collected in the Spanish Wikipedia.
Test what you have read about the flag of Region of Apurímac.
Flag image: JuanMRB.pe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Other flag
Europa
Other flag
Asia
Other flag
Europa
North America
Central America
Other flag
América del Sur
Other flag
Europa
