Cabeza del Caballo (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

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• Presentation of Cabeza del Caballo
• Symbols of Cabeza del Caballo

See also:

• Spain
• Castilla y León (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Province of Salamanca (Castilla y León, Spain)

Presentation of Cabeza del Caballo

The municipality of Cabeza del Caballo (413 inhabitants in 2009, 4,498 ha) is located in the northwest of the Province of Salamanca, 90 km from Salamanca.

Ivan Sache, 20 October 2010

Symbols of Cabeza del Caballo

The flag and arms of Cabeza del Caballo are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 18 December 2008 by the Municipal Council, signed on 5 March 2009 by the Mayor, and published on 13 March 2009 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 50, p. 8,306 (text).
Designed by Vicente Tocino Letrado and D. Tomás Rodríguez Peñas, and approved by the Chronicler of Arms of Castilla y León, the symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular flag in proportions 2:3, made of two equal vertical stripes, at hoist red with a white horse's head [cabeza de caballo], at fly white with seven equal wavy stripes, four white and three blue.
Coat of arms: Tierced per bend sinister, 1. Gules a horse's head argent, 2. Azure a bend sinister wavy azure fimbriated argent, 3. Or an oak eradicated vert. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

Ivan Sache, 20 October 2010