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image by Dov Gutterman (based on municipal
web site), 12 August 2008
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El Tambo is a municipality in the Nariño Department. It was
founded on 22 January 1573 by Julián Chingua and became a
municipality on 22 January 1870 by ordinance no. 22.
The flag of El Tambo is white and on part of it, next to the
hoist, there is a yellow-red stylized sun following the
municipality nickname "Hospedaje del Sol" (lodging of
the sun).
Source: municipal
web site
Dov Gutterman and Felipe Carrillo, 12 August
2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"A white rectangle, at hoist a smaller, centered yellow
rectangle charged with a sun at hoist.
White means purity, peace and serenity, also in relation with the
colour of the "nardo", the emblematic flower of the
region.
Red means value, struggle, nobleness, contrasting with the red
colour dominant in the paths and trails of the local lanscape.
The sun symbolizes the pleasant weather of the municipality and
its sundowns, which are exceptionally beautiful in relation with
the geographic structure of the region, and have yielded to this
land the nickname of "Lodging of the Sun".
Design by Audelo Eraso Chavez."
Another website
dedicated to El Tambo shows a different representation of the
flag, while copying the description from the municipal website.
The "nardo" is shown on the same website as a
bell-shaped flower, white, yellow or red, grown and sold by
several local families to the neighbouring town of Pasto (43 km) and otherwise in Columbia.
The main use of these flowers is the decoration of religious
monuments. Accordingly, the "nardo" was officially
recognized as the municipal flower.
See a high resolution photograph of a "nardo" flower at
<www.fotonatura.org>.
This "nardo" is probably a relative of the Indian nard
(Nardostachys grandiflora DC., Family Valerianaceae),
a.k.a spikenard, a plant of Himalayan origin used in Ayurvedic
medicine, ointments and perfumes, and threatened by
overharvesting.
Ivan Sache, 30 August 2008
naret.jpg)
image from municipal
web site