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image by Dov Gutterman, 4 August 2008
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Remolino is a municipality in Magdalena department.There are
some variations about its date of foundation. The official one is
8 December 1752 (by Don José Joaquín Zúñiga) but there are
also claims about 1768 and and 1776 (by Fernando de Mier y
Guerra).
The flag of Remolino is horizontally divided orange-white-green.
Information in Spanish: "La Bandera la componen tres lineas
horizontales en la parte superior de color Naranja, que
representa la pujanza de nuestras gentes y nuestras riquezas
naturales.
En el Centro va una linea de color Blanco que representa la
prosperidad y armonia de nuestras gentes y en la parte Inferior
va una linea de color Verde q representa nuestras riquezas en
cienagas, flora y fauna."
Source: municipal
web site.
Dov Gutterman and Felipe Carillo, 4 August 2008