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image by
Dirk Schönberger, 30 August 2010
Source:
adapted from
http://portal.riopomba.mg.gov.br/?pg=bandeira_brasao_hino
The official site is at
http://www.riopomba.mg.gov.br/
Dirk Schönberger,
30 August 2010
The municipality of Rio Pomba (17,283 inhabitants in 2005; 252 sq. km) is
located in south-eastern Minas Gerais, 250 km of Belo Horizonte. The
municipality of Rio Pomba was founded in 1831 by secession from the municipality
of Mariana.
The flag is horizontally divided green-yellow-green.
Overlapping the three stripes, a red triangle (the emblem of Minas Gerais), is
charged with a disk divided blue-green by a white wave (probably River Pomba,
for which the municipality is named), the upper part being charged with a white
dove and the lower part with a white Latin cross. Two green branches (of
coffee?) are crossed per saltire under the disk. The cross and dove may remember
that the region was pacified and christened by Father Manoel de Jesus Maria, who
celebrated a first mass in 1767.
The flag is shown on photos taken on 2
June 2010 during the 26th Rio Pomba Fair:
http://portal.riopomba.mg.gov.br/?pg=not%EDcia&id=1232
http://portal.riopomba.mg.gov.br/images/noticias/1232/DSC07405.JPG
Ivan Sache, 31 August 2010
