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image by Dov Gutterman (based on municipal
web site), 16 August 2008
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El Copey is municipality in Cesar Department. It was founded
on 8 November 1936 and became a municipality by ordinance 008 of
3 November 1971.
The flag of El Copey is 145 cm.X 215 cm.is size, horizontally
divided green-white and charge with the municipal coat of arms. Wikipedia show
it in plain version.
Source: municipal
web site.
Dov Gutterman, 16 August 2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"The dimensions of the flag are 2.15 m in length and 1.45 m
in height, with the upper stripe (2.15 m x 0.73 m) white,
representing the cotton grown in the region, and the lower stripe
(2.15 m x 0. 73 m) dark green, representing the splendor and
beauty of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the beautiful
valley of river Ariguani."
This description contradicts the image, with the colours swapped.
However, a photograph of
the flag at the municipal
web site confirms that the written description is wrong. The
photograph also shows, among others, a diagonally divided
white-blue.
The emblem is 68 cm in height and 52 cm in length, with a yellow
border bearing in chief the writing "EL COPEY VILLA DEL
CESAR". The chief of the shield is sky blue with three white
stars representing the three "corregimientos" of
Caracolicitos, Chimila and San Francisco de Asis. The median
stripe of the shield is white, with, from left to right, a rice
panicle, a coffee branch, a cotton boll and a cow, all in
blackand white and symbolizing the municipal resources in
agriculture and cattle breeding. The main field of the shield is
green, diagonally divided by a blue stripe fimbriated in white,
representing the river Ariguani, on its left a brown railway and
on its right three black African palms.
Ivan Sache, 1 September 2008
cesec.jpg)
image from municipal
web site
