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image by Eugene Ipavec, 19 November 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 14 November 2010
The flag of the regional government of Huánuco province appears in a
photo. It is very similar to the flag of Huánuco city.
Coat of arms is taken from provincial site.
Eugene Ipavec, 14 November 2010
Surely the colour of the lower part of the flag can't be right. I know these
shades of blue-y, green-y turquoise are a devil to tie down to web-safe colours
(and, of course, if we know them to be specified as a particular colour, there's
no need to use web-safe anyway), but in this case surely 51-102-102 would be a
closer match to the photo? And the lower part of the central shield and the
lower part of the flag are the same colour in the photo, aren't they?
Finally, isn't the upper part of the flag really white, and just appears
off-white in the photo because of the light? (The city flag
does have a cream top to the flag, but personally I wouldn't assume a
connection, since the bottom is clearly a different colour anyway). Separately
from the colours, the central motif in the photo lies *along* the diagonal. This
would make for a most peculiar flag, so are we seeing in the photo a variant for
'semi-vertical' hanging indoors?
André Coutanche, 15 November 2010
image by
Zoltan Horvath, 15 November 2010
Based on my searchings, the flag (and its colours) of Huánuco is slightly
different. The lower triangle (next to the hoist) is white (and not cream), and
the upper triangle is green, but a bit darker than it is illustrated, it seems
to be blueish-green.
Please see this
picture.
(Even, on the picture provided by Eugene, white panel is next to hoist, and
green is in the fly.)
Zoltan Horvath, 15 November 2010
Eugene’s rationale for cream instead of white was given - my 2005 report from
http://www.webhuanuco.com/simbolos.htm (still online).
I’m the first to render unusual shades as normal when only photographic evidence
is given, but in this case we have textual confirmation: «color verde nilo» and
«color crema», and even cogent meaning for the latter: «_color crema que
caracteriza la pigmentación del suelo con predominio del blanco crema_» (=
«cream color which characterizes the color of the soil», « with dominance of
creamy white»).
It seems to be a slightly different flag. White for cream could be due to a
specs shift or textile constraint, but swapping of the panels is purely a design
choice.
There seems to be several such cases in Peru - where the flag of a city and of
the region whose seat is in that city (and some times its namesake) are almost
identical: Cp. Loreto region and
Iquitos district, etc.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 November 2010
It looks to me as though the upper part of the shield is brighter than the
"white" field. It could be simply cloth being less reflective than embroidery.
It seems to indeed be one of those indoor-use Latin American flags with rotated
charges, but even so I bungled the orientation.
Eugene Ipavec, 19 November 2010
On a page about the
regional symbols of Huánuco it is said under mayoress Luisa María
Cuculiza (1975-1980) a municipal flag was adopted: diagonally (top hoist to
bottom fly) divided “cream” (whitish yellow) over green, standing
for the typical local soil, and for the local woods and forests.(Luisa
María Cuculiza is a well known Peruvian lady politician. Apart from
mayoress, she was
beauty
queen, athlete, nurse, dentist, minister and
vice-presidential
candidate. And vexillographer, apparently.)
António Martins, 07 Jan 2005
