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The Province of Entre Ríos is administratively divided in 17 departments. Inside these departments, there are a different number of municipalities. There are 78 municipalities in the province.
Francisco Gregoric, 24 Oct 2014
![[Concordia flag]](../images/a/ar-e-cc.gif)
The flag of Concordia is prescribed by Municipal Decree no. 29,803,
adopted on 10 December 1997 and published on 18 December 1997.
The flag was designed by Hugo Messer, winner of a public contest
prescribed by Decree No. 29,626. The description of the flag provided
by the designer is part of the Decree.
The flag was hoisted on 13 December 1997 in the places prescribed by
Decree No. 29,660, together with the national and provincial flags.
The flag is horizontally divided green and red, the colours of the
arms of Entre Ríos Province. The division of the flag is highlighted
by a white and yellow stripe symbolizing a sword. The stripe starts
near the hoist with a cross, recalling the early foundation by the
Jesuits, and ends near the hoist with a "tacuara"* with red
fastenings, as a reference to Federalism.
In the middle of the flag is placed a circular emblem including the
following elements:
The 2nd rank municipality of La Criolla (1,852 inhabitants, 1,307 in
the town proper) is located in the Concordia Department, in the north-
east of the Entre Ríos Province.
In 2005, the municipal administration of La Criolla launched a contest
for a municipal flag. The winner of the contest, Lorena Panozzo, was
proclaimed six years later, in July 2011. The flag eventually adopted
is Panozzo's proposal, with some modifications.
The flag is horizontally divided light blue-white-light blue, like the
Argentine national flag, with an orange fimbriation representing
citriculture and a purple fimbriation recalling that La Criolla was
proclaimed on 3 December 2008 by the Chamber of Representatives the
National Capital of Blueberry Cultivation. In the middle of the flag
is the Argentine sun charged with a handshake representing work, a
shovel and a rake representing the first tools use in agriculture;
forestry, citriculture and blueberry cultivation are represented in
the background.
Ivan Sache, 07 Aug 2011
![[Municipality of Chajari flag]](../images/a/ar-e-ch.jpg)
Chajarí is a city in the northeast of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 30,655 inhabitants per the 2001 census, and it is the largest city in the Federación Department. It lies on Provincial Route 2, about 2 km east of the intersection with National Route 14 and west of the Salto Grande reservoir on the Uruguay River, 330 km from the provincial capital Paraná.
The settlement of Chajarí was populated after joint efforts of the provincial and national governments to encourage colonization. The original town, called Villa Libertad, was founded on 28 May 1872; colonists began arriving in 1876 from several regions of Italy. The municipal government was established in 1889, and in 1934 the town changed its name to match that of its railway station, Chajarí.
The flag of the municipality is shown and described in the municipal website.
Valentin Poposki, 12 Dec 2007
![[Municipality of Federal flag]](../images/a/ar-e-fe.gif)
The municipality of Federal (14,478 inhabitants in 2001) is located in
central northern Entre Ríos Province. Federal is the capital of the
Federal Department (25,863 inh. in 2010, 5,060 sq. km), established on
15 September 1972. The department is made of the six districts of
Francisco Ramírez, Diego López, Chañar, Banderas and Las Achiras and
Sauce de Luna, of the municipalities of Federal, Conscripto Bernardi
and Sauce de Luna, and of several other rural settlements.
Federal was first known as Las Yeguas (lit., The Mares), a settlement
established by four horse breeders. On 7 September 1880, Colonel José
Francisco Antelo formally founded a colony named Colonia Antelo,
renamed Colonia Federal in 1884. Federal was recognized as an
independent municipality by the Provincial government in 1888.
The flag of Federal, designed in 2005 by Natividad Cabrera, is
horizontally divided celeste blue-white-celeste blue (recalling the
national flag) with a red diagonal stripe placed in upper right corner
(recalling the Entre Ríos flag and representing Federalism) and the
municipal coat of arms placed along the hoist.
The coat of arms of Federal was adopted in 1973.
The upper part of the shield is charged with historical symbols.
The cross recalls the Christian religion brought by the Jesuits.
The "tacuara", a rudimentary lance made of a knife blade tied to a
stalk of sugarcane, used by gaucho militias during the Argentine war
of independence, recalls the involvement of the gauchos into the
Federalist struggle. The spears with a pennant of the national colours symbolize the
involvement of the Indians in the patriotical struggle; the pennants
are the symbol of Federal sovereignty.
The three stars represent the three original ranches.
The lower part of the shield is charged with elements of the landscape.
The blue line represents brook Federal and its tributaries.
The mares represent the feral equines found in the region.
The bovine represents the main source of income for the region.
THe wheat garb represents crops.
The green hills represent El Montiel and the local "cuchillas" (hills
typical in Entre Ríos and Uruguay, also known in Rio Grande do Sul
[Brazil] as "coxilhas").
Ivan Sache, 14 Jul 2013
![[Municipality of General Galarza flag]](../images/a/ar-e-gg.gif)
The municipality of General Galarza (4,500 inhabitants in 2010) is
located in southern Entre Ríos Province.
General Galarza was founded on 5 October 1912, as the village of San
Guillermo, established by the San Guillermo Company Limited close to
the Galarza railway station. The village was delimited by the land
surveyor Nicolás Arriola on the territory of the Jacinta District,
Gualeguay Department.
The municipality of Estación Galarza was established by Decree No. 24
of 8 January 1948.
The flag of General Galarza, designed by Luis and Giovanni Fracaroli,
is prescribed by Decree no. 90 of 4 October 2012.
The flag shown on the background of the national colours a red stripe,
of the federal colour of the Entre Ríos Province. In the middle of
the flag is placed a yellow son charged with two green interlaced
letters "G". The green colour recalls the rural origin of the
municipality.
Ivan Sache, 16 Jul 2013
![[Bovril flag]](../images/a/ar-e-bo.gif)
The municipality of Bovril is located in central northern Entre Ríos Province.
Bovril is named for the British company "Bovril Ltd.", known in
Argentina as "Sociedad Argentina Bovril" or "Compañía Bovril". The
company was founded in London in 1889 by the Scot John Lawson Johnston
(1839-1900), who had registered in 1887 an extract of meat of his
invention under the trademark "Bovril". Johnson named his product for
the Latin word "bos, bovis", "a bovine", and for "vril", the liquid
substance at the origin of the success of the underground humanoid
race described by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) in his once famous
novel "Vril: The Power of the Coming Race" (1871).
Extract of meat was invented by the German chemist Justus von Liebig
(1803-1876) and his associate, the Belgian engineer Georg Christian
Giebert. The "Kemmerich & Giebert" company, registered in Antwerp
(Belgium), founded near Santa Elena, in the north of Entre Ríos Province, the first extract of meat factory in Argentina; in 1909,
they sold the factory and the neighbouring ranches to Bovril Ltd.
Bovril quickly grew up as a worldwide economical empire. The company
had its headquarters in Buenos Aires and owned thousands hectares of
land in several provinces. At his peak, Bovril owned in Argentina an
area equal to half the area of England, where 1,500,000 were bred; in
Entre Rios, the company managed in 1926 more than 130,000 ha.
In 1970, Sir Ian Lawson Johnston (1905-1996), the founder's nephew,
sold Bovril Ltd. to Cavenham Co. The company was purchased in 1973 by
the Santa Fé-base SAFRA, which managed it until 1984. Acquired by the
Entre Rios provincial government, Bovril was privatized in 1991.
The "Colony and village of Bovril" was officially established on 26
March 1913, when the governor of the Entre Ríos Province validated
the draft of the new settlement designed by the land surveyor Antonio
Tost and the civil engineer César Menegazzo. Originally known as "Km
49" (from its location on the railway), the village was renamed for
the company that had ceded the plots of land required to build the new
settlement. The railway station was inaugurated on 11 April 1914, the
village counting then 2,350 inhabitants.
The second-rank municipality of Bovril was established by Provincial
Decree No. 2,441 of 27 June 1951. Provincial Decree No. 2,375 of 20
November 1981 upgraded Bovril to a first-rank municipality.
Original source: Genaro Tomás O. Gaitz &Alcides Darío
Coronel,"Despertando los Recuerdos. Un Recorrido por la Historia de la
Ciudad de Bovril y Zonas Vecinas".
The flag of Bovril is horizontally divided yellow-dark green, with a
white triangle placed along the hoist and an emblem, different from
the municipal coat of arms, placed in the middle o the ooloured field
(triangle excluded).
White represents purity, joy, liberty and light.
The upper, yellow stripe refers to the sun, as a source of light,
force and life.
The lower, green stripe alludes to the land, the fields, hope and the
natural environment.
The emblem features in the middle a family entering the area [more
precisely, a man riding a horse pulling a cart with the rest of the
family, all black], recalling the history of the town, built by
immigrants, under the sun and the sky present on the national flag.
Below is a cultivated field, as the product of the men settled in the
area, and one of the most important sources of income in the area. The
oval shield is framed by wheat grains and maize cobs, two of the main
crops the most representative of the region. Beneath the shield is a
scroll made of the flags of Argentina (left) and of Entre Rios
(right), as a symbol of confraternity in unity and support to the
nation.
The flag was selected in a public contest organized in 2006 by the
Directorate and the Commission of Arts and Culture. The jury met on 30
May 2006 to examine the 24 submitted proposals; the design proposed by
Irma Liduvina Ortiz de Rueda was proclaimed the winning design by Act
no. 70 of the Commission of Arts and Culture.
The flag was formally approved by Ordinance No. 593 of 30 May 2006,
promulgated by Decree No. 117. The flag was officially unveiled on 20
June 2006.
Original source: Genaro Tomás O. Gaitz &Alcides Darío
Coronel,"Despertando los Recuerdos. Un Recorrido por la Historia de la
Ciudad de Bovril y Zonas Vecinas"
Ivan Sache, 06 Aug 2013
![[Municipality of Nogoya flag]](../images/a/ar-e-no.gif)
The town of Nogoyá (22,285 inhabitants in 2001) is the capital of the department of the same name, is located c. 100 km south-east of Paraná, the capital of the province of Entre Ríos.
The flag of Nogoyá, as shown graphically by "Victoria El Día", 1 October 2008, is horizontally divided red-blue-white-blue-green. The blue-white-green stripes are of equal height, forming the national flag, while the red and green stripes are of the same height and
slightly higher than the "national flag". There is a white disk placed closed to the hoist, charged with a map outlined in black and with a black dot, a yellow device on the left of the map and three blue waves on its right.
The map represents the Department of Nogoyá and the dot the town of Nogoyá. The blue waves must represent river Nogoyá. I expect the yellow device to recall that Nogoyá is the milk capital of the province.
The flag of Nogoyá is prescribed by Municipal Decree No. 718, signed on 4 July 2005 and with effect the next day. The premable of the Decree states that the flag was designed by Nogoyá-born Germán Kainer, who win a public contest prescribed by Decree No. 585, 27 September 2005, setting up the adhoc Commission.
![[Municipality of Maria Grande flag]](../images/a/ar-e-mg.gif)
The municipality of María Grande (7,101 inhabitants in 2001) is
located in the center-west of the Entre Ríos Province, 90 km from
Paraná.
The flag of María Grande is horizontally divided blue-white-green.
Near the hoist is placed a white disk with six white rays. Inside the
disk are placed a black bird with a white wheat spike in the mouth and
a red star, the whole inscribed in a black cog wheel.
The flag was selected in a public contest, devised by the Municipal
Councillor Eliana Sacks and officially launched on 20 June 2013. The
contest, open from 25 July to 30 August, yielded 23 submissions. The
jury met on 2 September and the winning design was unveiled on 24
October.
The flag was designed by Manuel Martínez Campagna. The historian
Gonzalo Abella explains that its colours and design are linked with
the flag known as the Federal Banner of Andresito Artigas, a variant
of the Federal Banner used today as the Entre Ríos flag. Abella added
that green and blue were not considered as colours by the Guarani but
as parts of life, green representing the "lower" environment and blue
the "upper" environment.
Ivan Sache, 01 Jan 2014
The municipality of Viale (8,939 inhabitants in 2001) is located 50 km
of Paraná, the capital of the Entre Ríos Province.
Viale developed around the Vial railway station, named after the
landlord Victorino Viale by Provincial Decree of 7 July 1906. The
place was originally settled by Italian and Volga German colonists.
The public contest "Una bandera para mi ciudad" (A flag for my town)
was prescribed on 16 May 2012 by Municipal Decree No. 529.
Proposals can be submitted between 17 May and 18 June 2012. The
winning design will be proclaimed on 23 June and the new flag will be
inaugurated on 7 July during the Town's Day celebration.
Ivan Sache, 23 May 2012
![[Basavilbaso flag]](../images/a/ar-e-ba.gif)
The municipality of Basavilbaso (9,005 inhabitants in 2001; 750 ha),
aka Basso, was built around a railway station inaugurated on 30 June
1887 by the Entre Rios Central Railway company. Located on Km
222,445, the station was named Gobernador Basavilbaso by Law of 23
August 1887, as a tribute to Clemente Basavilbaso (1841-1907),
Governor of Entre Ríos Province from 1887 to 1891. The station became
an important rail junction, nicknamed "Capital of the
Trains" ("Capital de los Trenes").
On 24 August 1891, Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896) founded in
London the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) to promote the
emigration of Jews of Central Europe an Asia. In 1894, Jewish
colonists established in Basavilbaso a colony named Lucienville, as a
tribute to the Baron Hirsch's son, deceased in 1887. Nicknamed "Jewish
Gauchos" ("Gauchos Judíos"), from the title of a book published in
1910 by Alberto Gerchunoff (1882-1950), the colonists yielded to
Basavilbaso the title of "Cornerstone of Argentine Agricultural
Cooperativism".
The flag of Basavilbaso is quartered white-celeste blue-red-green by a
gray decentered saltire. Over the intersection of the saltire's arms
is placed a yellow disk with a gray border.
The flag, designed by Maximiliano Barac, was adopted by the Municipal
Council on 30 June 2007 after selection by a jury among 53 proposals
designed by students. The official contest had been prescribed by
Municipal Ordinance No. 94 of 29 August 2006.
The flag was inaugurated on 29 June 2007 during the celebration of the
120th anniversary of the establishment of the town.
Celeste blue recalls the sky, the vision of future, thought, as well
as water, the source of life for mankind, referring here to the local
project of spa.
Red recalls the soil, production, federalism, and the Entre Rios flag.
Green recalls the diversity of soil types, agricultural cooperativism,
hope, and the natural environment.
White recalls immigration, the melting-pot, religion, the community
and the ideal for the future of the town.
Gray recalls the railway. The crossing of the railway lines, the means
of communication with the neighbouring town, divided the town in four
boroughs.
Yellow recalls the sun, as well as the light of a locomotive and the
town as the center of the four directions communicating with the
neighbouring settlements.
Ivan Sache, 08 Aug 2013
![[Herrera flag]](../images/a/ar-e-he.gif)
The municipality of Herrera (1,587 inhabitants in 2001) is located in
eastern Entre Ríos Province.
Herrera is also known as Villa San Miguel. In 1868, Nicolás Herrera,
from La Rioja Province, was granted a plot in the Gená District. His
son Julián purchased in 1875, together with his brother-in-law, Juan
Libaros, 7,850 ha, where they established two estates, Santa Vicente
and Santa Celmira, respectively. Julián subsequently reunited the two
domains. In 1891, Julián Herrera established on his own funds a
railway station, which he named Nicolás Herrera, as a tribute to his
father. The railway allowed him to transport the products of his
estate to the port of Concepción del Uruguay. The village that
developed near the railway was officially established, as Villa San
Miguel, on 11 October 1912.
In 1922, the Herrera estate was rented by Italian colonists from Santa
Fe, who re-established agriculture and cattle-breeding.
The flag of Herrera, selected on 19 June 2012 in a public contest, is
diagonally divided red-green by a broad ascending yellow diagonal
stripe charged with black railways. A yellow white spike is placed in
canton.
The flag was inaugurated during the celebration of the 121st
anniversary of the establishment of the town
The railways recall the origin of the town. The green field and the
wheat spike recalls that the town mostly grown from agriculture. Red
represents Argentine federalism, ambition and positivism.
Ivan Sache, 11 Aug 2013
![[Villa Mantero flag]](../images/a/ar-e-vm.gif)
The municipality of Villa Mantero (1,526 inhabitants in 2001) is
located in the Uruguay Department, 50 km of Concepción del Uruguay.
Villa Mantero was founded on 29 September 1893 by the trader Juan
Miguel Séro. The founder named the village for his father-in-law, Juan
A. Mantero, a politician who struggled against the transfer of the
provincial capital from Concepción del Uruguay to Paraná, to no avail.
The flag of Villa Mantero is divided green-yellow by a red bend. A
blue horizontal stripe is added in the green part.
The flag was inaugurated on 29 September 2012 during the celebration
of the 119th anniversary of the foundation of the town.
The flag was designed by Norma Martínez, who won the public contest
organized by the municipal administration. The other participants to
the contest were Ricardo Korell, Jonathan Heidenreich, Mónica Kroh,
Miguel Continetti and Andrés Continetti. It appears that the decision
was made in November 2007
Yellow represents the Christian faith, recalling that the first church
in the region was built in Villa Mantero.
Green represents field work.
Red represents Federalism.
Blue represents brook Gená, whose water is used to irrigate the crops.
Ivan Sache, 07 Oct 2012
![[Victoria flag]](../images/a/ar-e-vi.gif)
"Victoria al Día" announced on 20 September 2008 the launching of a
competition for a municipal flag. Asimilar competition organized by
the previous municipal administration was unsuccessful because of the
low numbers of proposals.
Ivan Sache, 30 Sep 2008
According to "Victoria al Día", 23 November 2008, the competition jury
has elected the winning design among 60 proposals.
The jury made the final choice among three proposals, two of them
portraying Mount La Matanza, also used on the municipal coat of arms.
The winning design is mostly olive green and the winner's names should
be announced this week. "Victoria al Día" knows that the flag was
designed jointly by a man named Wálter Auer and a woman.
Ivan Sache, 25 Nov 2008
In "Diario Victoria", 1 December 2008, Octavio Raffo presents the new
municipal flag of Victoria, designed by Walter Auer, graphic designer,
and Melina Albornoz, Profressor of Visual Arts.
The flag is green with yellow symbols: a cross standing on a hillock,
surmonting a tree, the whole surrounded by a nearly complete ring and
four right angles in the corners of the flag.
The articles explains the flag as follows:
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