Baja California Sur, Mexico

Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur / Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur

Last modified: 2005-09-24 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note: Baja California Sur has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat of arms is broadly used:

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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 06, 2001. See: Coat of arms on white background (unofficial flag)

• Presentation of Baja California Sur
• The Baja California Peninsula
• Coat of arms

• Filibustering and imaginary states
• California (U.S.A.)
• Baja California
• Mexican states
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• Baja California Sur (official state website)
  reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, January 19, 2002

• Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur / Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur
  
• Shor-form names: Estado de Baja California Sur / State of Baja California Sur; Baja California Sur
  
• Location: Northwest of Mexico, south of the Baja California Peninsula. It lays the Mexican state of Baja California (N); the Sea of Cortés or Gulf of California (E), and the Pacific Ocean (W).
  
• Area: 73,677 km2
  
• Municipalities: 4
  
• Population: 379,000 inhabitants
  
• Capital: La Paz (Pop.: 91,000)
  
• Statehood: October 8, 1974
  
• Arms adopted: Unknow date.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 06, 2001.

The Baja California Peninsula is divided into two states, Baja California (Lower California) and Baja California Sur (Southern Lower California).
Pascal Vagnat, 03 Jul 1996

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 06, 2001.

A Spanish shield Parted per pale. The right pale is gold and the other is gules. The shield is charged with a shell in plate profiled in azur. The gold-outlined border is blue charging four fish, tunas.
It is a unheraldic shield, but colors and elements enjoy of great significance; gold and gules stand for richness and nobility; the shell and the fish (tunas) represent fishing, and plentyhood. Fhishing is the main economic activity of the state and tuna the major sea resourse.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán June 17, 2001