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Sora is a municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá,
part of the the subregion of the Central Boyacá Province. It was
founded on 12 August 1556.
The flag of Sora is
horizontally divided yellow-white-green and charged with the coat
of arms.
Source: municipal
web site.
Dov Gutterman, 10 September 2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"The municipal flag is made of three horizontal stripes of
the same size forming a rectangle. The colours of the flag are,
from top to bottom:
- Yellow, representing the resources provided by the land of
Sora, not only economically speaking, but also including the
reousrce and potential of the villagers;
- White, representing peace, harmony and tranquillity enjoyed by
the community of Sora, which is noble, pacific, kind and acts
entirely without malicious intent;
- Green, representing hope in progress and a promising future,
and also representing the fertility of the soils, which, in spite
of being topographically arid, are an important source of income
for the regional and national economy, through agriculture."
"The coat of arms of the municipality of Sora is inscribed
in a yellow "crown" of colonial kind - Spanish, genuine
or modelled on the designs used in the XVIIIth-XIXth centuries in
the New Kingdom of Granada.
The shield surmonts a yellow horizontal scroll inscribed with
"MUNICIPIO DE SORA" and the date at which the village
was upgraded to this category [this would be "15 JULIO
1976", 15 July 1976, but this is not shown on the picture of
the coat of arms]. The shield is of oval shape, horizontally
divided into three fields called "allusions" and
containing elements representative of the place. The upper field
contains eight white stars placed in a semicircular pattern on a
blue sky, three hills or mountains of triangular shape, one in
the background and the two lateral ones in the foreground; in the
lower part of the field is a valley or piece of green colours
with a few ridges shown in perspective and two blue brooks
flowing from the upper part of the hills.
The stars are an allegory of the eight hamlets ['veredas':
Caitoque y Salitre, Casablanca, Chicacaneca, Chuscal y Gavilán,
Llano, Piedra Gorda, Pita y Chone and Quebrada Honda] that form
the rural and central parts of the municipality. The three hills
represent a branch of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian
Andes, where the place is located, while the valley represents
the most fertile section of the municipality.
The two brooks represent the only two water courses that surround
and limit the centralpart of the village.
The central field contains, on a white background, two hands
shaken in a gesture of union and cordiality; one hand has a red
sleeve while the other has a blue sleeve, and they surmont two
branches of laurel. The handshake gesture represents the
cordiality among the villagers, and the two colours, blue and
red, represent the union and strength that have triggered the two
traditional parties to unite their forces for the development of
the village; the hands are surmonting laurels, representing the
triumphs that the union of the proselyt forces has achieved for
the wellfare of the municipality and its inhabitants without
political differences.
The lower field shows the parish church, this element being of
main significance as the mots important image of the culture and
religious values of the municipality. The coat of arms, designed
by Jaime Hernando Prieto, was adopted by Municipal Decree No 018
in 1993."
On the flag, the coat of arms is inscribed in a white oval
outlined in black, slightly and transparently overlapping the
green and yellow stripes.
Ivan Sache, 23 September 2008
bycso.jpg)
image from municipal
web site
