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by Raul Orta, Olivier Touzeau, 09 March 2015
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The municipality of San Francisco in Zulia state (Venezuela) has become a
city on february 26, 2015 and new symbols have been selected. In the new flag,
the blue color represents Coquivacoa lake, red describes the spiritual strength
of fighting people, orange connotes the warmth of the people of San Francisco,
the wealth that abounds in its soil, and the yellow
color represents the sunlight, on which is the bridge over the lake that
connects San Francisco with the rest of the country.
The new flag can be seen in use
here
with another explanation of the colours (blue for the sky and red for the
blood of the Batalla Naval del Lago).
Source:
http://www.diariorepublica.com/regionales/municipio-san-francisco-del-zulia-avanza-como-ciudad-y-transforma-sus-simbolos-patrios
Olivier Touzeau, 09 March 2015
by Raul Orta, 8 Febuary 2003
San Francisco is a rural municipality, created 1995 on the
outskirts of the city of Maracaibo in Zulia state, Venezuela,
along Lake Maracaibo. On its homepage you can be found its flag
at <www.san-francisco.org/ban01.htm>.
I gather the flag was designed by a 12-year old girl .Coat of
Arms and info in Spanish at <www.san-francisco.org/escu01.htm>.
Jarig Bakker, 18 September 1999
Here is the translation of the information from the site:
"Through a school contest set up by the Town Mayor,
12-year-old student Astrid Fasciola designed the flag of San
Francisco. Blue colour stands for the waterside setting of the
city with respect to Maracaibo Lake; the great potential for
industrial and commercial development, is represented by intense
yellow; and the hopes put by San Francisco's inhabitants in
agricultural activity as the manager of progress and growth is
represented by green."
Santiago Dotor, 27 September 1999
Recently we had the occasion to be in International Airport
"La Chinita" on jurisdiction of the Municipality, where
I could appreciate directly and personally that the blue triangle
ends in points and not in straight lines at superior and inferior
parts of the hoist as reported before.
Raul Orta, 26 Febuary 2003
by Phil Nelson, 29 July 2000