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Guateque is a municipality in the Colombian Department of
Boyacá, part of the the subregion of the Eastern Boyacá
Province. It was founded on 28 January 1636. Guateque is the
birthplace of Enrique Olaya Herrera, the 20th president of
Colombia (1930-1934).
The flag of Guateque is
horizontally divded red-white with the bottom stripe charged with
two green triangles (representing the mountains) and between them
a yellow sun. It was adopted by deree No. 044 of 1999 and was
designed by Pedro Jukio Aldana.
Source: municipal
web site
Dov Gutterman, 13 September 2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"The flag representing the municipality of Guateque was
adopted by Decree No 044 of 1999, following a competition for the
design of municipal symbols. The flag has the two colours red and
white and a symbol representing the sun and the mountains, placed
inside the white stripe. The author of the flag is Pedro Julio
Aldana."
Ivan Sache, 26 September 2008
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image from municipal
web site
