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Consaca is a municipality in the Nariño Department near the
Galeras Volcano. It was founded on 17 December 1861. It is known
as the "Historical corner of Colombia" (Rincón
Histórico de Colombia) because of its rich history.
The flag of Consaca (ratio 48:65) is diagonally divided (bottom
hoist to upper fly) white-red and charged with the municipal
emblem showing the Galeras Volcano.
Source: municipal
web site
Dov Gutterman and Felipe Carrillo, 12 August
2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"The flag is made of rectangle of 1.95 m in length and 1.44
m in height, divided by a diagonal from the lower left corner to
the upper right corner. The upper triangle is white,
meaning peace, purity and honesty of the villagers,
their frankness and Catholic faith. The lower triangle is red,
recalling that Consacá is pinned in the pages of the national
history; on 7 April 1822, the bloody battle of Bomboná took
place in one of the nicest sites of the municipality. During this
battle for the emancipation of Colombia, the Father of the
Nation, General Simón Bolívar, together with General Pedro
Léon Torres and the heroic soldiers shed their blood and gave
their lives to transmitt us the liberation from the Spanish yoke.
Red also represents the colour of the volcanic rocks, the ripe
coffee berries, base of the economy of the municipality, and the
glaze and ochre used by our ancestors to decorate their ceramics.
The emblem is made of a disc of 60 cm in diameter with a blue
background, on which are shown the name CONSACÁ, the active
volcano Galeras and on its slopes two weapons, a rifle and a
sword. The circular shape represents the consistency between past
and present, linking joy, patriotism and labour, a sacred
commitment for the villagers, together with the love for the
place where we were born and live. The volcano is our majestuous
and mighty Galeras, the still and pernnial witness of our
history, harbouring our municipality on its slopes. The blue
background represents the immensity of our sky, the horizon point
and the sideral space over Consacá. The weapons recall us that
the heroes and weapons are buried in the field of Bomboná,
together with slavery."
The battle of Bomboná took place near the estate of San Antonio
de Bomboná. On 7 April 1822 the Patriot amy commanded by Simón
Bolívar, advnacing on Quito, defeated the Royalist Aragon
Battalion, commanded by Colonel Basilio García. General Pedro
Léon Torrs commanded the Patriot vanguard, made of the Bogotá
and Vargas Battalions.
Volcano Galeras, peaking at 4,270 m asl, woke up in 1998 after
some 40 yers of sleep, and impacted Consacá in 2004, 2005 and
2008. For more information see: <www.vulkaner.no>.
Ivan Sache, 28 August 2008
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image from municipal
web site