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Baja California, Mexico

Free and Sovereign State of Baja California [Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California]

[Baja California official State Flag] 4:7
[Baja California coat of arms on white background]

[Coat of arms of Baja California]

Official Baja Californa flag
according the art. 6 of the state's constitution De facto flag of Baja California State coat of arms
Images by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, August 31, 2001

Presentation of Baja California
Official flag of Baja California
Coat of arms
Historical flags of Baja California

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Government of Baja California

Presentation of Baja California

Official name: Free and Sovereign State of Baja California [Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California]
Short-form names: State of Baja California [Estado de Baja California]; Baja California
Location: The northernmost state of Mexico, North of the Baja California peninsula. It lays United States of America (N); the Mexican states of Sonora (NE), and Baja California Sur (S); the Sea of Cortés also known as Gulf California (E), and the Pacific Ocean (W).
Area: 70,113 km²
Municipalities: 5. Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate and Playas de Rosarito.
Population: 2'487,367 inhabitants (2000)
Capital: Mexicali (Pop.: 764,602)
Statehood: January 16, 1952
Flag adopted: 16 August 1953
Arms adopted: 27 September 1956
Arms designer: Armando Deibouis M.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 08, 2001.

Official flag of Baja California

I found an article about the emblems in the text of the constitution of the Mexican state of Baja California. Here is a translation of it (the original text is in Spanish, so I could have made some mistakes in the translation):

(...)

Chapter 3: About the official symbols.

Art 6: The national flag, the national anthem and the national coat of arms are the obligatory symbols in the whole state. The state can have its own coat of arms. It won't have any other official flags, anthems or coat of arms. The usage of the National symbols is subject to the dispositions of the federal ordinances.

Pascal Vagnat, 03 Jul 1996

Coat of arms

"When Baja California reached statehood in 1953, it does not had a coat of arms for its own, thus, at the half of his administration, Governor Braulio Maldonado Sánchez called for a contest. The competition took place on February 24, 1956. Two months later, after the Dirección de Acción Cívica y Cultural, (present-day the Secretariat of Education and Social Well-being) made up a panel of judges. Such a competition was annulated for the works presented did not fulfill the requirements asked by the panel. In this way, the panel chose the four better drafts then asked the respective authors to work another draft resulting as winner Armando Deibouis M. The design was adopted as the official Baja California State coat of arms on 27 September 1956."

From: Escudo in Gobierno del Estado de Baja California
Quoted and translated by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, January 19, 2002

De facto flag

[Baja California coat of arms on white background]

De facto flag of Baja California
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, August 31, 2001

Ca. 1888 Baja California flag

[1888 Flag of Baja California]
by António Martins, 08 Nov 1998

This flag of Baja California dates from 1888.
Don Healy, 05 Jul 1996

Unidentified flag of Baja California

"At the same time, Arnulfo Herrera, who works together with the vexilogist and heraldist Enrique Florescano in the National Council for the Culture and the Arts, took steps to investigate what concerns to an unidentified flag of Lower California, which is presumed to correspond to a secessionist attempt - typical - encouraged by the Americans (gringos in Mexican terminology)."

By Jaume Ollé in Flag Report 13.

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Official Baja Californa flag according the art. 6 of the state's constitution		De facto flag of Baja California	State coat of arms
Images by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, August 31, 2001


De facto flag of Baja California by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, August 31, 2001