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| Flag in use | Flag depicted after description of the 2010 Flag Act | Coat of arms in use |
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 May, 2011
Coat of arms by
Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco
Images from 2013 to present:
06,
07,
08.
Flag used from 2008-2011 and 2013-present.
Coat of arms
Flag
| Color specifications: | Color | PMS | CMYK | RGB | |
| Based on Manual de imagen published on May 2007 | Black | 100% | 0-0-0-100 | 0-0-0 | |
| Grey | 30% | 0-0-0-30 | 205-205-205 | ||
| Brown | 1535 | 0-100-51-38 | 177-123-0 | ||
| Green | 348 | 100-79-0-27 | 0-132-95 | ||
| Blue | 287 | 100-0-69-11 | 32-80-153 | ||
| Red | 485 | 0-91-100-0 | 223-0-47 | ||
| Yellow | 116 | 0-94-15-0 | 248-224-30 | ||
INEGI and SEP
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 May, 2011
Coat of arms by
Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco
Images from 2013 to present:
06,
07,
08.
Flag used from 2008-2011 and 2013-present.
From the Ley de los símbolos Oficiales del Estado de Jalisco:
Capítulo I - Disposiciones Generales
(...)
Artículo 2. Símbolos oficiales.
1. Los símbolos oficiales del Estado de Jalisco son: el escudo, la bandera y el himno del estado.
(...)
Capítulo III - Bandera del Estado
Artículo 10. Características de la Bandera del Estado.
1. La Bandera del Estado tiene las siguientes características:
I. Consiste en un rectángulo dividido en dos franjas verticales de medidas idénticas, con los colores en el siguiente orden a partir del asta: azul y oro;
II. Entre las franjas, azul y oro, y al centro, tiene el escudo oficial, con un diámetro de tres cuartas partes del ancho de una franja;
III. La proporción entre anchura y longitud de la bandera, es de cuatro a siete; y
IV. Podrá llevar un lazo o corbata de los mismos colores, al pie de la moharra.Artículo 11. Uso de la Bandera del Estado.
1. Los edificios públicos y los planteles educativos deben contar con la Bandera del Estado, con el objeto de rendirle honores y utilizarse en actos cívicos.
2. El saludo civil a la Bandera del Estado es de pie en posición de firmes, con la mano derecha extendida sobre el pecho y la palma hacia abajo a la altura del corazón, y con la cabeza descubierta.
3. La Bandera del Estado no saluda a persona o símbolo alguno, salvo mediante ligera inclinación y sin tocar el suelo a:
I. Otra bandera estatal, nacional o extranjera;
II. Los restos o símbolos de los héroes de la Patria o del Estado; o
III. El Presidente de la República, el Gobernador del Estado o un Jefe de Estado extranjero en caso de reciprocidad internacional, para corresponder su saludo.
Which translated reads (summary)
Decree 23121/LIX/10:
"Ley de los símbolos Oficiales del Estado de Jalisco"
Reported and translated by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 7 July, 2011
The Kingdom of New Galicia, founded about 1532, was a constituent territory of the
Viceroyalty of
New Spain
gaining broad domestic autonomy in 1574, excepting a short
period from 1588 to 1591; the Viceroy's authority just might intervene in
military and fiscal matters.
Note that New Galicia was not a Viceroyaly by its own,
it was named "Kingdom", though it was not governed by a King but
by a "governor" who was at the same time president of the Royal Audience of
Guadalajara.
The capital of the so-called Kingdom of New Galicia was first established at Compostela
(currently in the State of
Nayarit);
then on May 10, 1560, by a royal certificate,
it was moved to Guadalajara.
The Kingdom of New Galicia desappeared in 1786 to become the Intendencia of Guadalajara;
this allowed the central government to intervene in internal matters.
When Mexico achieved independence on 27 September, 1821, and became an Empire,
the Intendencia of Guadalajara became the Department of Guadalajara (incorrectly
known as Province of Guadalajara) as a constituent part of the Empire.
On 23 June 1823, the Department of Guadalajara,
became the Estado Libre y Soberano de Xalisco, a constituent part of the
federal republic of the United Mexican States.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, July 17, 2001.
New Galicia, that covered most of the current Jalisco's territory including also the current states of
Zacatecas,
Aguascalientes, and
Nayarit, just like other kingdoms, intendencies or provinces within New Spain, had not a flag for its onwn.
It is incorrectly believed that the current flag of
Guadalajara was that of New Galicia, there isn't any prove of that so far.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, July 17, 2001.
![[Defacto flag until 2008]](../misc/fis_defa.gif){kind=small}
![[State flag]](../misc/xoxxxx.gif)
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 06, 2001
based on these photos:
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02,
03,
04.
Until 2008, Jalisco flew a white flag with the state coat of arms in the center.
It is unknown when the flag was exactly adopted.
This flag was meant to be replaced by the current one
adopted by the Decree 21821-LVII-07.
Nevertheless, the white flag was still being used
at official meetings and events throughout 2008,
such as the Mexican University Games and the Mexican National Olympics.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, December, 2008.
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, July 17, 2001
"The first news of the existence of a flag in the state of Jalisco came to me through a young Mexican vexilologist who gave me the description. He said that the flag could be seen in Guadalajara quite often. Nevertheless, I believe that contradictory news were mixed, on one hand the existence of a flag project with blue and yellow colours and on the other hand the exhibition of a flag with these colours as local flag of the city of Guadalajara, that apparently was based on the supposed colours of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia. Immediately I requested official information to the governor of the State. Later, I contacted an Argentinian vexilologist living in Mexico, Luis Havas, who talked to Mr. Fernando Navarro, officer of the Centro de Atención para los Asuntos dirigidos al Gobernador (Center for the Attention of the Matters Addressed to the Governor of the State of Jalisco), who, by chance, had recived my letter addressed to the governor. Mr. Navarro said that he knew nothing about the issue, but he promised to ask the Congress and see if there was any bill in such sense. Luis Havas then talked to Mrs. Patricia de la Torre, researcher of the Congress of the State of Jalisco, who was in possession of the project about such a flag. It was, at first, a small flag that the businessmen of Jalisco gave to the governor, at the time, of the opposing party PAN whose colours are blue and white. The project the governor supported and passed it to Congress' Legal Director Mr. Palomino. The project remains under consideration, and when it is finished it shall be submitted as a bill, and if passed - and over all, if it is 'approved' by the Secretariat of the Interior (headed by a PRI member), then it is possible that Mexico will have for the first time a flag for a state. Mrs. de la Torre promised to send all the precedents.
E-mail from María Patricia de la Torre, Congress of the State of Jalisco, received through Luis Havas:
Excuse me for not having answered your letter sooner, I send you my best regards again and I inform you that the project is still under consideration, but the flag was made by Mr. Jorge García Fernández and Mr. Alejandro Fruchier, President and Director, respectivelly, of the Business Council of Jalisco. Their telephone is 013 634 89 34, ext. 207. As you rightly say it is a formidable idea, that is still under consideraiton. Any advance, if 'authorized', will be communicated to you at once. Thanks for your interest, and best wishes.
On Monday, Luis Havas tried to take contact with some of the mentioned people. On 18 January 1999 it was received the complete information from the government of the state by means of the Center for the Attention of the Matters Addressed to the Governor (...) Constitutional Governor Alberto Cardenas Jiménez ordered the sending of the requested information, collected by Fernando Navarro Toriz. (...)
Concerning the new flag Mr. Navarro says:
There exist the project is to be submitted as a bill to the Congress in order to approve an official flag, but it is yet in process of approval by the governor. Such a project is a proposal flag divided into two vertical halves, blue in the hoist and gold in the fly; in the center the official coat-of-arms.
Jaume Ollé, Flag Report 13, May 9, 2001
The flag actually in use is that in white with the state arms in the center.
However, as reporter also by Jaume Ollé in Flag Report 13, there is a bill
on the State Flag. According some state representatives
and Mr. Palomino (Congress Head Director and the person whom originally sent the proposal
to the Congress in late 1990s), the bill (entitled Ley de la Bandera del Estado Libre
y Soberano de Jalisco) is planned to be discused in the next few days by the Comisión
de Asuntos Constitucionales (Comission of Constitutional Matters), if approved, then it
shall be passed by the whole State Congress. This last step could take some weeks, but
according Mr. Palomino, by February 2005 may have a final resolution. Thus if passed, Jalisco
shall be the very first Mexican state in adopt, by law, a local flag.
By the way, the desing proposed is as published in Flag Report 13 but there will
be some changes in the coat of arms.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, December 08, 2004.
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 May, 2011
Coat of arms by
Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco
Image based on these photos:
01,
02,
03,
04,
05
Which translated reads (summary):Capítulo Tercero
De la Bandera del Estado de JaliscoArtículo 14. La Bandera del Estado de Jalisco consiste en un rectángulo dividido en dos franjas verticales de medidas idénticas, con los colores en el siguiente orden a partir del asta: Azul y Oro. Entre las franjas Azul y Oro y al centro, tiene el Escudo Estatal, con un diámetro de tres cuartas partes del ancho de dicha franja. La proporción entre anchura y longitud de la bandera, es de cuatro a siete. Podrá llevar un lazo o corbata de los mismos colores, al pie de la moharra.
Artículo 15. Los honores a la Bandera Nacional se harán siempre con antelación a los que deban rendirse a la Bandera del Estado o a personas.
Artículo 16. Los ayuntamientos y planteles educativos, oficiales y particulares del Estado deberán contar con la Bandera del Estado, con el objeto de rendirle honores y emplearla en actos cívicos.
Artículo 17. Toda reproducción de la Bandera del Estado de Jalisco deberá corresponder fielmente al modelo al que se refiere el artículo 14 de esta Ley.
- The flag is rectagular, verticaly divided in two equal bands, the hoist is blue and the fly is gold.
- The State coat of arms, whose diameter (sic) is 3/4ths. the width of the stripe, is centered on the field.
- The flag is proportioned 4:7.
- It could carry a rope or a cravatte bellow truck.
- The National Flag shall always be honored before the State flag.
- Councils, and public and private schools shall own a sample of the State flag.
- Every sample of the flag shall match the description given before.
From Decree 21821-LVII-07,
Congreso del Estado de Jalisco
Located and translated by: Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán
December, 2008.
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by Government of Jalisco:
Nuevo escudo de armas de Jalisco: aplicaciones gráficas
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 7 July, 2011
Photos:
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02,
03.
| Flag and coat of arms adopted: | 8 August 2010; by Decree 23121/LIX/10: "Ley de los símbolos Oficiales del Estado de Jalisco" published in "Estado de Jalisco" (official gazette) on August 7, 2010. |
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| Color specifications: | Color | PMS | CMYK | RGB | |
| Based on Nuevo Escudo de Armas de Jalisco: aplicaciones gráficas | Grey | 30% | 0-0-0-30 | 205-205-205 | |
| Green | 348 | 100-0-85-24 | 0-132-95 | ||
| Blue | 287 | 100-69-0-11 | 32-80-153 | ||
| Red | 485 | 0-91-100-0 | 223-0-47 | ||
| Yellow | 116 | 0-16-100-0 | 248-224-30 | ||
by
Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, 22 May, 2011
Artículo 4. El Escudo de Armas de la Ciudad de Guadalajara, capital del Estado de Jalisco, que representa la historia, costumbres, idiosincrasia y valores del pueblo de Jalisco; además de los colores azul y oro, se consideran representativos y oficiales del Estado de Jalisco.
(...)
Artículo 6. El Escudo de Armas se compone por las siguientes características particulares:
I. Presenta la parte inferior redondeada y con abundantes trasoles que rodean el emblema en ambos flancos, abarcando desde la parte superior hasta casi llegar a la base del escudo
II. Dentro del escudo se encuentran dos leones de su color puestos en salto, arrimadas las manos a un pino de oro realzado de verde, en campo azul, orla de siete aspas coloradas y el campo de oro; y
III. Por timbre y yelmo cerrado y por divisa una bandera colorada con una cruz de Jerusalén de oro, puesta en una vara de lanza, con trasoles, dependencias y follajes de azul y oro.
Congreso del Estado de Jalisco
Located by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán,
December, 2008.
This coat of arms was given to the City of Guadalajara by Royal decree of H.M. King Carlos V in 1542, the year the city was founded. Truly unprecedented, as it was not in the policy of the Crown to give Coats of Arms to cities in the New World, it was done probobly because rather than being a conquered city, it was one that was founded anew by and for Spaniards. We can see in the centre, a tree with two lions climing it.
Does this look familiar? Yes, it resembles the coat of arms of Madrid. Yet, rather than a single bear climbing up a tree, we see two lions. This is no surprise, as the New World was colonised out of Andalucía. And just like the Andalusian dialect was the one taken to the New World, so it was shown in the influence of this Coat of Arms, as Andalucía's has two lions, those were put in place of the bear. Thus, we can see the influence of both Castilla and Andalucía in Guadalajara.
Jesús Aceves, 14 Nov., 1998.
Regarding the coat of arms, it was adopted by decree No. 13661 probably dated on October 1989. Nevertheless there are publications previous to this date that already assign this coat-of-arms to the state of Jalisco. The text of the decree says:
It is declared as representative and official of the State of Jalisco, the coat of arms of the city of Guadalajara and the blue and gold colours.
Article 1. It is declared as representative and official of the state of Jalisco, the coat-of-arms of the city of Guadalajara, capital of the state, described as follows: A shield, and inside it two lions proper in posture of jumping [i.e., rampant], their hands reaching a pine of gold highlighted in green, in blue field, border of seven red saltires and gold field; for crest a closed helmet crowned by a red flag with a cross of Jerusalem in gold, attached to a spear, with trasoles, dependencies and leaves [sic] of blue and gold.
Article 2. Blue and gold are official colours of the state of Jalisco.
Article 3. The coat-of-arms of the State of Jalisco will be used with due respect by the dependencies of government and by the social groups that represent the entity, inside and outside the national territory, as well as by the citizens of Jalisco in general.
TRANSITORY:
This decree will come into effect on 8 November of the current year, date of the 450 anniversary of the Royal Decree of 1539 that granted coat of arms to the city of Guadalajara, and must published in the Official Journal of the State of Jalisco as well as in one of the State's main newspapers'.The description of the coat-of-arms reproduces literally the decree of Emperor Charles V of Germany and Queen Joan of Castille of 8 November 1539, preserved in file 230 AGI Guadalajara, Archive of Indias, Seville, Spain.
Jaume Ollé, Flag Report 13, May 9, 2001
Reported by: Juan Manuel Gabino Villacán, July 17, 2001
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by
Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, 7 July, 2011
From the Ley de los símbolos Oficiales del Estado de Jalisco:
Capítulo I - Disposiciones Generales
(...)
Artículo 2. Símbolos oficiales.
1. Los símbolos oficiales del Estado de Jalisco son: el escudo, la bandera y el himno del estado.
(...)
Capítulo II - Escudo del Estado
Artículo 7. Características del Escudo del Estado.
1. El Escudo del Estado es el escudo de armas de la ciudad de Guadalajara y tiene las siguientes características:
I. Presenta la parte inferior redondeada y con abundantes trasoles que rodean el emblema en ambos flancos, abarcando desde la parte superior hasta casi llegar a la base del escudo;
II. Dentro del escudo se encuentran dos leones de su color puestos en salto, arrimadas las manos a un pino de oro realzado de verde, en campo azul, orla de siete aspas coloradas y el campo de oro; y
III. Por timbre y yelmo cerrado y por divisa una bandera colorada con una cruz de Jerusalén de oro, puesta en una vara de lanza, con trasoles, dependencias y follajes de azul y oro.
Which translated reads (summary)
Decree 23121/LIX/10:
"Ley de los símbolos Oficiales del Estado de Jalisco"
Reported and translated by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 7 July, 2011
Before and during the current flag was being adopted, lots of flags, meant to represent the State of Jalisco, could be seen througout the state: hanging from hotels' flagstaffs, flying at official buildings, being used by state athletes, and adorning both official and unofficial events. The most widely used flag, even for official porposes was that in white with the state's arms in the center, which, should the considered as the state's de facto flag until 2008. Other flags, shown here, are based on the state official coulours: blue and gold, and all but two, feature the coat of arms. The decorative, souvenir "tricolor" flag with the state arms, mostly used abroad, is included as an unofficial alternative as well. It is important to remark that all of these flags are unofficial, since, at least from 2008, this is the only official flag. by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 22, 2011.
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by Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco
and Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 May 2011
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 May, 2011
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
based on this photo:
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
based on this photo:
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
based on this photo:
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
based on these photos:
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
based on this photo:
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
based on this photo:
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, February 22, 2007
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 7 July, 2011
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