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It seems that Sucre was devided into two cantons and part of
it became San Vicente canton.
Antonio Martins, 18 January 2002
The canton was formed on 3 November 1875.
According to the map available on the municipal website, the
canton of Sucre is made of two parts separated by the Canton of
San Vicente. The northern part is made of the parish of San
Isidro, while the southern part is made of the parishes of Bahía
de Caráquez (capital of the canton) and Charapotó.
A photograph of a meeting
orgenized by the municipality at <www.bahiadecaraquez.com>
shows the municipal flag on the stand with the municipal coat of
arms in the middle, overlapping the two green stripes. There are
other photographs of the meeting room with the same flag.
However, the "Municipal symbols" section of the municipal website
shows the flag, as a
drawing, with a ring of ten green stars: The flag is shown with
six green stars only as drawings on a PDF
document available on the website of the Association of
Ecuadorian Municipalities.
The number of stars does not seem to be related with the number
of parishes.
The municipal coat of arms is described on the municipal website
as: "The coat of arms of the Canton of Sucre mostly
symbolizes the legacy on the coasts of Ecuador, and especially in
Manabí, of the Caras nomadic people, which came from the north
on fragile boats and settled in Bahía for a long period, and
then moved away, mostly to the hinterland via river Esmeraldas
and eventually merged with the Quitus and other peoples. This
happened in the VIIIth century. The colonial town of Bahía was
founded in March 1624 by José de Larrazábal, on the order of
Antonio de Morgan, the President of the Audience and
Administration of Quito.
The upper third of the shield is divided into two parts
representing, on the left, the crops grown in the canton, and in
the right the symbols of industry and commerce of the powerful
Canton of Sucre".
The upper left quarter is argent with a branch of coffee, a bunch
of banana and a pineapple (?). The upper right quarter is vert
with a white cogwheel crossed by a winged staff surmonted by a
Phrygian cap. The lower part of the shield represents Caras
sailing on rafts. The base of the shield is red with the black
number "1875", alluding to the foundation of the
canton. There is a green star surmonting the shield and a scroll,
horizontally divided green-white-green with the writing
"Canton Sucre" in the middle, the initials in red and
the other letters in black.
Ivan Sache, 18 October 2008
ma-su.jpg)
image from <members.es.tripod.de>
(defunct), located by Pascal Gross, 23 June 2000
