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Tenza is a municipality in the Colombian Department of
Boyacá, part of the the subregion of the Eastern Boyacá
Province. It was founded on 24 June 1537.
The flag of Tenza is horizontally divided green-white-red. It was
adopted on 13 December 1968 and was designed by Antonio María
Latorre.
Source: municipal
web site
Dov Gutterman, 13 September 2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"The flag of this municipality, imagined by Antonio María
Latorre, was hoisted for the first time on 13 December 1968
during the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Tenza
martyres. The flag is divided in three equal horizontal stripes,
of colours green, white and red. Green represents the fields and
their crops, grasslands and trees. White represents peace and
tranquillity. Red recalls the blood shed by the Tenza martyres
who offerred their life for freedom."
The flag is used as the first quarter of the municipal coat of
arms, adopted by Decree No 026 on 22 November 1993.
As a side note, several Colombian municipal coat of arms seem to
have been adopted years after the flag, contrasting with the
common practice of designing the flag after the coat of arms.
This is probably due to the lack of historical coat of arms for
most of these places.
The coat of arms of Tenza also shown a bronze obelisk dedicated
by Montaña to th María de los Angeles Avila (shot for her
support to the patriots marching against Casanare), Salomé
Buitrago, Juana Ramírez and Genoveva Sarmiento. The guerilla
against the Spanish rule broke out in the Valley of Tenza in
1817, led by Vicente and Ambrosio Almeida. Accordingly, several
local patriots were shot by the rulers commanded by Carlos Tolra,
including Esteban Avila, José Antonio Barahona, Domingo Barrera,
Andrés Bernal, José Antonio Bohorquez, Fernando Buitrago,
Fermín Contreras, Juan Manjarres, Juan José Medina, Juan
Gabriel Mora, Diego Zamora and Juan Manuel Zea.
Ivan Sache, 26 September 2008
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image from municipal
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