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The Province of Santiago del Estero is administratively divided in 27 departments. Inside the departments there are municipalities of three kinds: 1a. Clase (First Class), 2a. Clase (Second Class) and 3a. Clase (Third Class).
Francisco Gregoric, 1 Nov 2014
![[Pinto Municipality flag]](../images/a/ar-g-pi.gif)
The Municipality of Pinto is in Department of Aguirre, Province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. now as a flag.
Valentin Poposki, 25 May 2007
The text on the municipal website says that the Decree creating the flag and modifying the official coat of arms of the town was approved by the Municipal Council in its extraordinary session "during the last weeks". All the Councillors, from either the Unión Vecinal or the Partido Justicialista, approved the flag.
The new flag recalls by its colours the national flag (white and blue) and the local feeling (red and black), as well as the sun.
On 20 September 1890, a railway station, unusually big for the time, was inaugurated on land granted by the former Governor of the Province of Santiago del Estero Don Luis Generoso Pinto. This event is considered as the foundation day of the town of Pinto that grew later
around the station and has now 4,100 inhabitants.
Ivan Sache, 02 Jun 2007
It is a ~4:7 unequally quartered flag with square hoist areas, red over black at the hoist and while over light blue on the hoist; on the crossing point a yellow sun, its diameter slightly smaller than half the flag’s height.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Oct 2007
![[La Banda Municipality flag]](../images/a/ar-g-lb.gif)
The municipality of La Banda (95,178 inhabitants in 2001, therefore
the second most populous municipality in the province) is located 10
km of Santiago del Estero, on the left bank of river Dulce.
La Banda emerged in the late 19th century as a agricultural colony
located close to the San Carlos estate. The appearance of the railway
in 1890 boosted the development of the settlement through immigration
and export of products; La Banda counted more than 6,000 inhabitants
around 1900.
The first autonomous local government, the three-member "Municipal
Commission for La Banda Station", was named and tasked by the
Provincial Law of 4 January 1892. The "Municipal Commission of La
Banda Village" was organized by Provincial Decree No. 55 of 23 January
1905.
La Banda was granted the rank of "ciudad" by the Provincial Assembly
on 16 September 1912. The municipality of La Banda was formally
established on 3 January 1920. Provincial Law No. 907 of 5 August 1925
granted La Banda a locally elected Municipal Council, but elections
were delayed for years by the provincial government. The first elected
Municipal Council was eventually inaugurated on 7 July 1929.
The flag and arms of La Banda were approved by the Municipal Council
on 14 September 2012.
The flag is horizontally divided celeste blue-white-red with the
greater municipal arms in the middle. Celeste blue and white come form
the national flag, while red comes form the provincial flag.
The coat of arms is:
![[Ciudad Frías flag]](../images/a/ar-g-cf.gif)
It is a red over green horizontal bicolor with an emblem over all
composed of a “demi” sun (with nine visible flame-like
rays), yellow, and a “demi” cogwheel (with six visible
“teeth”), white (or grey), set as a disc of diam. approx.
half the flag’s height with a pair of shaking hands, of caucasian
complexion, over all — as in the national
emblem.
António Martins, 10 Dec 2004
![[Sumampa Municipality flag]](../images/a/ar-g-su.gif)
The 3rd-rank municipality of Sumampa (4,812 inhabitants in 2001),
located 240 km south of Santiago del Estero, is the capital of the
Quebrachos Department.
The sanctuary dedicated to the Sumampa Virgin of the Consolation is
the only building in the Province dating back to the colonial period.
It is today one of the main Marian pilgrimage places in Argentina.
Accordingly, it was proclaimed a Provincial Historical Monument by
Decree No. 11 of 11 July 1972 and a National Historical Monument by
Decree-Law No. 1180 of 12 November 1973.
The flag of Sumampa was first unveiled on 20 June 2012 during the
ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the death of General Manuel
Belgrano, the designer of the national flag and including the oath and
loyalty promise to the national flag. The ceremony took place in the
Provincial School no. 982. Later on, the authorities moved to Sumampa
Viejo (Old Sumampa) and offered a copy of the flag to the "Círculo
Criollo Martín Fierro" local circle.
The unveiling of the flag was originally scheduled to 18-19 November
2011, during the celebration of the 78th anniversary of the foundation
of the town. The act must have been postponed.
The flag of Sumampa was officially hoisted in the Hall of the
Municipal Council of Sumampa (date not given).
The project of adopting a municipal flag, originally prescribed by in
Decree No. 82, adopted in 1996, was revived. A contest was organized,;
involving the local educational institutes, which were asked to
consider the natural, cultural, social and historical features of the
region when designing proposals. The final design was based on the
proposals submitted by the Provincial School No. 982, the
Kindergarten No. 130 "Mis Pollitos", the Commerce School "Martín
Miguel de Güemes" and the Technical College No. 9 "Gob. Ing. César
Eusebio Iturre". Forwarded to the Municipal Council, the final
proposal was unanimously adopted in 2011 by Ordinance No. 278.
The flag of Sumampa is horizontally divided light blue-median green by
a thick red serrated line. The upper; blue field, is charged with a
yellow Argentine / Inca sun, while the lower, green part, is charged
left with a quebracho flower and right with a local petroglyph
portraying a goat.
The red zigzag represents the local topography, here the Sumampa
Mountains, a snake' move in aerial view, and integration of different
social actors on the same geographical territory.
Blue represents the Argentine feeling and the sky as it appears most
of the days over Sumampa.
Red represents federalism and the red granitic rocks of the Sumampa
Mountains, as well as the color of rocky art made by the native peoples.
Median green represents the quality of the environment, the profusion
of natural resources, the nice micro-climate of the Sumampa Mountains
and the geographical framework where all the sociocultural and
productive activities take place.
The Inca Sun represents God's clarity and religious diversity, the
feeling of belonging to the Inca territory and the lowlands that form
the territory of the Santiago del Estero Province;
The quebracho flower ("paajpuca") represents the native tree
emblematic of the mountains, for which the department was named.
The goat ("huasancho") is the central element of the petroglyphs found
on the Piedra Pinta (lit., Painted Stone) site.
Ivan Sache, 01 Jul 2012
![[Anatuya Municipality flag]](../images/a/ar-g-an.gif)
The municipality of Añatuya (20,261 inhabitants in 2001) is the
capital of the General Taboada Department, located in the east of the
Santiago del Estero Province.
The Añatuya Diocese was created on 10 April 1961 by Pope John XXIII
and approved by the Argentine government on 18 September 1961 (Decree-
Law No. 8328).
Añatuya might soon adopt a flag. During the session of the Municipal
Council held on 14 April 2011, the Officialist group of councillors
tabled a proposal of Decree prescribing the creation of a flag and
arms for the town. The proposal was written by Ramón Vargas, who
recalled that the first Organic Chart of the municipality, issued in
1994, provisioned for the adoption of municipal symbols by the
Municipal Council; the provision was dropped in 2007 from the revised
Organic Chart, which in no way can prevent the Municipal Council to
adopt the symbols.
The (proposed) coat of arms, symbolizing the municipal autonomy, is
made of a shield in "Norman style", following the national and
provincial traditions, whose upper angles spiral to the center of the
shield. It is divided into two quarters, the quarter in chief sky blue
representing the national colors and the other quarter sea blue
representing the clothing of the railways workers, the railway being
at the origin of the municipal territory. The center of the shield is
white [therefore, the shield is horizontally divided sky blue-white-
sea blue], symbolizing intelligence and purity, charged with a
federal, eight-pointed star made of eight lozenges issuant from the
center, expressing the Argentinean federalism and of bright red color.
The star is outlined in white and black; together with red, these
colors symbolize the ceramics of the native cultures in their diverse
components: Mercedes, Sunchitúyoj and Averías. The star is charged
with the traditional representation of a skunk, elegant and proud, in
Aroldo Suárez' Inca lines, of Indo-American golden color.
The lower quarter is sea blue, the color of the clothing of the
railways workers, crossed by a river made of a wavy line argent,
representing river Salado (cachi mayu) supplying life, wealth and
fertility. The outer ornaments are made, on the right, of branch of
cotton with bolls and, on the left, of a branch of flowering alfalfa,
forming an open crown vert and tied up under the shield by a bright
red ribbon with a golden fringe representing autonomy. On the scroll,
three original Inca inscriptions, "AMA SUA, AMA LLULLA, AMA
QUEYA" (Neither thief nor liar, not lazy either).
The (proposed) flag is shown as based on the Argentinean national
flag, in the middle a white rectangle outlined in yellow and black and
charged with the star and skunk from the coat of arms. On the right of
the rectangle, a broad sea blue panel separated from the sky blue
stripes by thin white stripes.
Ivan Sache, 06 May 2011
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