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by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 2 September 2002
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Sonso'n is in Antioquia department. Flag is yellow over green.
Info in Spanish and CoA at http://www.sonson.gov.co.
Dov Gutterman, 10 May 2002
Translated from http://www.sonson.gov.co/emblemas.htm:
"Flag of Sonsón - In session in the month of July of 1948
preliminary to the celebration of the feast of the maize, in the
society of public improvements, sculptor Don Rómulo Carvajal
proposed the adoption of a flag for Sonsón. Assigned to himself
the mission, and by means of some consultations on heraldry, he
presented/displayed to consideration of the honorable members in
session of the same month, the following symbol: In two
horizontal strips of equal size the colors gualda and black-green
with the following meaning: Gualda above, or yellow golden, like
the ancestral symbol of our native wealth, mining wealth and
simultaneously as an expression of the culture of the maize, one
of the main agricultural sources of the place and whose name
takes the folkloric celebration. Black-green below, or
dark-green, like the symbol of exalted nobility and extension of
our mountains, accord with the color that is symbol of
Antioquía. With the previous exposition of motives, the Society
of Public Improvements approved the proposal and from that year
it officially became the flag of Sonsón. Despite this, the hymn
and the flag of Sonsón were only officially adopted by the
Municipal Council, by means of agreement 012 of May 23,
1997."
It talks about a golden yellow and dark-green colors, not a plain
yellow & green colors.
Blas Delgado Ortiz, 2 September 2002
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from http://www.sonson.gov.co/emblemas.htm
, located by Dov Gutterman