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image by Carlos Thompson, 13 November 2004
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At municipal
website there a St. George cross and not Scandinavian cross
as previously reported. Note also that
the Coat of Arms show the ship and train but not a plane.
Dov Gutterman, 12 November 2004
The canton was formed on 4 November 1922.
The flag, adopted on 28 October 1960, is blue with a white cross
and the municipal coat of arms in the middle. The specifications
are given by the municipal
website as: "Dimension: 3 m x 1.5 m; Colour: Bright
blue, 0.55 m in height, 1.225 m in width; White cross: Vertical
stripe, 0.55 m in width; Horizontal stripe, 0.40 m in height;
Coat of arms of Manta: In the center of the cross with a blue
star."
The Institutional Flag is mentioned on the
same page of the municipal website: "For the use by the
different institutions of the town, the dimensions are prescribed
as 1.80 m x 1. 20m."
The statement "without the coat of arms", present in
the previous
municipal website (defunct), has been deleted (but the last
line of the original document might have been deleted during
publication on the website).
The version without the plane and very picturesque is shown. This
"earlier" version really looks like an oversimplified
representation of the complex coat of arms.
Carlos Thompson, 13 November 2004 and Ivan Sache,
15 October 2008
On 5 November 2008, "El
Diario" bitterly regrets that "civism is absent
from the parks, sqares and patriotic altars in the public and
private institutions, place where the flag of Manta is not
hoisted." The flag was seen only on the municipal square,
the Undersecretary of Fishery, the Mercy church and the Oro Verde
and Howard Johnson hotels, while in the other squares and most
institutions "the 86th anniversary of the formation of the
canton [4 November 1922] remained unnoticed."
Ivan Sache, 5 November 2008
image by Carlos Thompson, 13 November 2004
image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 October 2001
I found the description of the former flag of the Canton of
Manta, in Manabí Province, Ecuador. It was a vertical sky blue -
white - sky blue triband with the actual coat of arms in the
center of the white band. Dimensions not specified. I assumed
3:1.
Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 October 2001
image by Pascal Gross, 23 June 2000
Based on <members.es.tripod.de>
(defunct).
Pascal Gross, 23 June 2000
ma-mt.jpg)
image from <members.es.tripod.de>
(defunct), located by Pascal Gross, 23 June 2000
See also: municipal website