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![[Rio Grande da Serra,
SP (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-sp-rg.gif)
7:10 by Joseph McMillan
Adopted 24 September 1970
The flag and coat of arms of Rio Grande da Serra were instituted by laws 44
and 45 of 24 September 1970. The flag is 14 units hoist by 20 fly, yellow
with a dark blue border all around. The municipal coat of arms is placed on
the center, 5 1/4 units wide by 6 3/8 units high, the top 3 units above the
center line. The coat of arms is divided per fess, the upper half sky blue
with three light green mountains, in the center a river in the shape of an S
issuing from the base of the mountains and flowing toward the viewer, its
banks dark green. The lower half of the shield is divided per pale. The
dexter base quarter dark blue with three flowers known as copos-de-leite
(literally, "glasses of milk") issuing from a single stalk, with three leaves for each flower. The
sinister base quarter is yellow, with two cairns of rocks, with four
small ones behind and one in front separated by two others. Overall on the
fess point a small white St. Andrew's cross (saltire) couped. Surrounding the shield
are seven dark blue stars, three on each side and one below, representing
the ABCDMRR municipalities.
Source:
Official municipal website; follow links for cidade, then bandeira e brasão.
Joseph McMillan, translation corrected by Francisco Santos, 21 March 2003
Copo-de-leite is the flower Zantedeschia aethiopica, which is called
cāntaro in European Portuguese.
Francisco Santos, 21 March 2003