La Tola (Narino, Colombia)

Last modified: 2008-09-20 by dov gutterman
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image by Dov Gutterman, 12 August 2008

• Overview
• Coat of Arms

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• Colombia
• Narino Department

Overview

La Tola is a municipality in the Nariņo Department. It became a municipality on 5 January 1988.
The flag of La Tola is horizontally divided green-white.
Source: municipal web site
Dov Gutterman and Felipe Carrillo, 12 August 2008

Translated from municipal web site:
"The flag is made of two horizontal stripes , green-white,with the following meaning:
- Green represents the wide forests and mangroves, resources of the municipality;
- White symbolizes peace."
Mangrove covers one-fourth of the municipal territory, protected in the San Quianga National Parc, created by National Decree No. 161 in 1977.
Ivan Sache, 30 August 2008

Coat of Arms

image from municipal web site