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Centro Regional de Educación "Saturio Ríos"

CRESR flag
image by Ivan Sache, 06 Aug 2006

About the Flag

The flag of CRESR is white with a dark red triangle, not reaching the edges of the flag, charged with the yellow letters "CRESR". The "Impact" font seems to be a correct approximation of the font used o nthe real flag, which is shown on a photography on the CRESR website. The flag was designed by two teachers of CRESR, María Luisa Castillo and Martina Cárdenas. Garnet red (rojo granate) represents the flower of the chivato salpicada de amarillo* , a tree that grows profusely near the center. White is the symbol of the purity of the children and of the youth.

*Chivato is the name given in Argentina and Paraguay to the Royal Poinciana, _D. regia_ (Boj. ex Hook.) Raf., a tree native from Madagascar, aka Flamboyant (FlameTree) or Malinche. The Portuguese word chivato, "a pimp", alludes to the bright red, profuse flowers of the tree. The biggest petal (standard) of the flower is white and yellow-spotted, which might explain the salpicado de amarillo (yellow-spotted) epithet.
Ivan Sache, 06 Aug 2008

About the Institution

Centro Regional de Educación "Saturio Ríos" (Education Regional Center "Saturio Rios"), located in San Lorenzo, is the follower of the Escuela Normal Rural (Rurual Schoolmasters' College), built with the help of the US government and inaugurated on 25 April 1956. Decree No. 28,343 of the Executive, signed on 22 April 1963, transformed it into the Primer Centro Regional de Educación de la Repúblic (First Education Regional Center of the Republic); the center was ruled by a Director General appointed by the Paraguayan Minister of Education and an US Assessor.

On 16 October 1966, the center was named after Saturio Ríos (1846-1920). Born in San Lorenzo, Ríos was the first telegraphist in Paraguay.

Ivan Sache, 06 Aug 2008


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Facultad Politécnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción

CRESR flag
image by Ivan Sache, 08 Nov 2011

About the Flag

The flag of FP-UNA is white with the faculty's seal in canton, "FP - UNA" near the top of the flag, and the faculty's motto "Construyendo el Futuro" (Building the Future) near the bottom of the flag. In May 2010, FP-UNA staff members of the first Paraguayan Antarctic expedition displayed the flag in different sites.

The seal of FP-UNA is made of an open book flanked by branches tied under the book and surrounded by two concentric rings, the inner ring charged with "FACULDAD POLITECNICA / VITAM IMPENDERE VERO", the outer ring charged with "UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ASUNCION / REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY". The faculty's Latin motto, "Vitam impendere vero", "To devote one’s life to truth", is borrowed from the Latin poet Juvenal (IV, 91).
Ivan Sache, 11 Nov 2011

About the Institution

The "Facultad Politécnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción" (FP- UNA) was founded on 8 February 1979 by Decree No. 1538-03 of the Higher Council of the Asuncion National University. FP-UNA is divided into the Departments of Management, Basic Sciences, Computer Science, and Electricity and Electronics. With its main campus in Asunción, FP- UNA has two secondary seats in Coronel Oviedo (1992) and Villarrica (1995).
Ivan Sache, 11 Nov 2011


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