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image by Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 11 August 2007
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Translated from <toribio-cauca.gov.co>
:
The flag of Toribío is rectangular, ratio 2:3 and divided into
three horizontal stripes with internal ratio of 1:1:2. The upper
stripe is light blue, the central stripe, in the same width, is
white. The bottom stripe is red, and is double in its width. In
the flag's fly there is a vertical green and white stripe of
one-fifthteenth of the length of the flag with chumbes (Taw
in Páez) with abstract figures, mammals and persons, following
the figures created by the indians of our municipality.
Light Blue represents the pure atmosphere without contamination
and without pollution, our fresh waters without the ecological
problems. It is also the colour of the mountains seen from
far.
White is the color of peace that indicates that we must find
pacifical sollutions to all the problems that in any times
divided us, peace that must bring justice; social justice,
respect to all rights of our inhabitants, peace that is threated
by racist positions, religious beliefs and political parties.
Red represents the blood spilled by the Páez indians in defense
of their country, victims of the spanish empire as well as
spilled also in other periods of our history, in the way to
liberty.
The chumbe figures represents the intelligence, the
abstraction capacity of the indians of Toribío as well the
culture, the fauna, the flora and the men of this municipality.
Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 6 April 2005 and 11 August
2007
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image from <toribio-cauca.gov.co>