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image by Dov Gutterman, 19 June 2006
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Translated from <www.dlh.lahora.com.ec>
- the Ecuadorian official gazette, publishing the Municipal
Decree on the flag, adopted by the municipal council on 6 October
1999 and published on 14 August 2001 in the Ecuadorian official
gazette No 389 (Supplement):
"Article 1.
The flag of the canton of Atacames as the canton's civic symbol
shall be publicly exhibited in all historic commemorations and
social and cultural acts. Moreover, it shall be permanently
displayed in the public, semipublic and private entities, as well
as in the educative, associative and handcraft, etc., centers of
the canton.
Article 2.
The flag of the canton shall be made of three equal vertical
stripes, azure, white and green.
Article 3.
The meaning of the colours of the flag of the canton is the
following: - Azure represents the majestuosity of the sea
batheing our coasts, source of wealth, and the limpid and empty
sky predominating in this canton. - White represents the
inhabitants' purity and kindness. - Green represents the
exuberant vegetation and the soil fertility. The white central
stripe shall be charged with four marine azure stars,
representing the rural parishes forming the canton, Tonchigue,
Súa, La Unión de Atacames and Tonsupa, and a red star
symbolizing the canton's capital, Atacames.
Article 4.
Authorship of the flag belongs to Pr. Armando Guaga Ramos, whose
work was proclaimed winner by the Honour Court [...] of a
competition for the creation of the civic symbols of the canton
organized by the municipality of Atacames on 11 December 1993
[...]."
The image is marked "incomplete" since the four stars
are missing. Without a graphical source, it is, however,
difficult to complete the drawing accurately.
Dov Gutterman, 16 June 2006 and Ivan Sache, 4
October 2008