^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

El Cabaco (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

Flag of El Cabaco - Image by "Willy" (Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español), 19 May 2011

Presentation of El Cabaco
Symbols of El Cabaco

See also:

Presentation of El Cabaco

The municipality of El Cabaco (290 inhabitants in 2010; 4,735 ha; unofficial website) is located in the south of Salamanca Province, 70 km from Salamanca.

El Cabaco may have been named for cavado, from Latin cavatus, "a place with excavations"; the same root is found in the name of brook Cavaquillo and river Cavin watering the village. Moreover, the big ditches called cávenes, spread all over the municipal territory, were used by the Romans to wash gold.
El Cabaco was resettled in the 12th century by a few Castilian families, as part of the resettlement plan led by Raymond of Burgundy on behalf of King Alfonso VI. The village was first mentioned in 1205 in the privilege granted by Alfonso IX to Miranda, which included El Cabaco.

Ivan Sache, 19 May 2011

Symbols of El Cabaco

The flag of El Cabaco is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 25 November 1994 by the Salamanca Provincial Government, signed on 12 December 1994 by the President of the Government, and published on 27 December 1994 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 240 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Quadrangular flag, with proportions 1:1, horizontally divided white and red. In the middle is placed the crowned municipal coat of arms, in full colors, covering 3/5 of the panel's height.

The coat of arms of El Cabaco is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 23 July 1993 by the Salamanca Provincial Government, signed by the President of the Government on 20 December 1993 and published on 11 January 1994 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 6 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Azure a pick or per pale chaussé or, 2. Or five torches inflamed sable per saltire. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown.

Ivan Sache, 19 May 2011