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The municipality of Salar (2,803 inhabitants in 2007; 8,560 ha) is located 50 km west of Granada.
The name of the town probabaly alludes to saltworks, once common in the western part of the province. The traditional origin of Salar is related to the conquest of a Muslim fortress by Hernán Perez del Pulgar on 30 May 1486, during the siege of Loja. Perez was indeed appointed Mayor of the place by the Catholic Kings in 1490 and commissioned to resettle the area. Salar seceded from Loja, as an independent municipality, in 1817.
Source: Granada Tourism website
Ivan Sache, 29 Jun 2009
The flag of Salar was approved by the Municipal Council on 27 April 2009 and submitted on 29 April 2009 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed it by Decree on 12 May 2009, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 104 on 2 June 2009.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
[Flag] Rectangle in proportions 2/3 (hoist to length) divided into two horizontal stripes of equal size, the upper green and the lower red. In the middle, the municipal coat of arms.
The flag should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with its official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not apprended to the Decree).
Source: BOJA, No. 104, pp. 55, 02 Jun 2009
Not addressed in the Decree, the municipal coat of arms must have been approved earlier.
Ivan Sache, 29 Jun 2009