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image by Eugene Ipavec, 11 August 2005
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4 Departments or states of my country have new flag designs.
Those are: Guainía, Guaviare, Vaupés
and Amazonas. No more info about new Amazonas flag yet.
Anibal Villalba, 8 July 2002
The new flag of Amazonas department, seen for the first time
at <www.federacionnacionaldedepartamentos.org.co>
J.J Andersson, 30 July 2002
Images based the book by Julio César García: "Himnos y
Símbolos de Nuestra Colombia" (Anthems and Symbols of our
Colombia) published by Camer Editores in 2000. ISBN
958-33-1489-7.
E.R., 11 August 2005
In the official site of Colombia's Amazonas Department, in the
section
dedicated to the departmental flag we see the flag we have above,
but in the section
for the Governor there's a big
photo showing the Governor and behind her a flag (also a
smaller one on her office desk) which has the same stripes as the
flag we know, but the figures and the star are replaced by the
coat of arms of the department.
Paraskevas Renesis, 5 may 2005
Usually there are no Governor flags in Colombia: and they
often use the Department flag on their offices. This could be a
variant of the Amazonas Department flag. Most of the times, there
is a plain Department flag (colors only) but when in official
duties, they usually use the Department flag charged with the
Department's respective Coat of Arms. This also apply on desk
flags, as you can see in the same picture.
E.R., 5 may 2005
In the official website of the Government of the Department of
Amazonas at <www.amazonas.gov.co/>,
one can see the description of the flag: The dimensions of the
flag are: 2.10 mts. long x 1.30 mts wide, with color distributed
as follows: Green 90 cms, Mustard Yellow 8 cms and white 32 cms.
The silhouettes are: an Indian 29 cms long x 23 cms tall; a tiger
37 cms long x 15 cms tall; a star having 20 cms between each of
its tips. The flag was adopted by Decree Number 090 of August 21,
1974.
Regarding the coat of arms, this site
mentions that it was adopted by Bill Number 020 of the Department
Assembly on March 2, 1995. The description is the Amaon river
bordering the land, inscribed in the shape of a local flower
called Victoria Regia, with red/yellow feathers on the borders
symbolizing the Indian Chiefs' wisdom.
E.R., 4 January 2008
image by Jorge Candeias, 3 August 2005
based on Presidencia site (defunct)
Horizontal tricolour of three parts of green, one part of
orange and two parts of yellow, with a black 5-pointed star in
the orange stripe, heavilly shifted to the fly.
Jorge Candeias, 3 August 2005
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image by Eugene Ipavec, 11 August 2005
