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Cácota is a municipality in Norte de Santander Department. It
was founded on 2 January 1760.
The flag of Cácota is
horizontally divided green-white-yellow and charge with two ears
of wheat.
Source: municipal
web site.
Dov Gutterman and Felipe Carillo, 8 August 2008
Translated from municipal
web site:
"The colours green, white and yellow are placed in
horizontal stripes of the same dimensions, with in the middle two
ears forming a crown. The flag was designed by Ms. Celina Isidro
Duarte, a specialist in education, and themeaning of its colours
can be summarized as follows.
Green is the colour of hope, of life, of nature. Cácota has
several natural resources such as mountains, grasslands and
vallyes; the municipal territory includes a natural park whose
soil harbours a great variety of trees, shrubs, orchards and
crops; the houses decorated with gardens and the fields look like
a counterpane with a set of colours with green dominating. Green
also represents the sites attractive for their beauty, myths and
history, such as the Lagoon, the Eyes' Stone, the Lagoons of
Cornal, the Cave of Salamanca, the Old and the Mill. Green
symbolizes the aspiration in life more worthy, human, quiet,
happy and religious. [...]
White is the colour of sincerity, innocence, kindness, purity and
peace. [...]
Yellow represents wealth and creativity. [...]
The horizontal stripes symbolize liberty and democracy. The
parallel stripes represents unity and mutual help towards
progress and independence.
The wheat ears recall the importance of the crop in the past and
that agriculture is still the main source of income for the local
economy."
Ivan Sache, 14 August 2008
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image from municipal
web site
