Municipality of Buenavista del Norte (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islan

Ilustrísimo Ayuntamiento de Buenavista del Norte

Last modified: 2009-01-24 by eugene ipavec
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• Description
• Former Flag
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Tenerife Island (Canary Islands, Spain)
• Canary Islands (Spain)
• Spain

Other sites:

• Flags of Tenerife by José Manuel Erbez

According to Heraldica Institucional de Canarias, the new flag is a horizontal white over green over blue tricolour. The ratio of the stripes is 1:2:1. Maybe the flag is used since 1992 (BOC xx/01/1992).

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2007

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2007

The former flag of Buenavista del Norte is vertically divided white (hoist) and green (fly), with the coat of arms in its centre.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Apr 2007

Links to two good images - could this [fence of palisades] be a giant cactus? (There are some on nearby Lanzarote.)

Jan Mertens, 21 Apr 2007

The coat of arms of Buenavista del Norte is a shield is divided per fess. On the base is a green object in a silver (white) field. Unfortunately I don't know what kind of object, it might be a big fan or a fence or palisades. The chief is divided per pale. On the dexter chief is a white lighthouse in a blue field, in the sinister chief two white crickets with black legs in a green field. The shield has a red border with a golden inscription "Daute es mi bando (top) Tenerife mi isla (right) Mi nombre (left) Buenavista (bottom)" or "Daute is my tribe; Tenerife my island; Buenavista my name." Daute was one of the Guanche mini-kingdoms; literally, the inscription says "party" instead of "tribe." The shield is topped by a crown. I spotted this flag on 30 January 2007 in the Military Museum Sta. Cruz d. T.

Sources and Credits

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Apr 2007

• The blue colour in the right chief is symbolizing sea and sky, according to the words of Viera y Clavigo the "loyal companions of the village"
• The lighthouse is the tower of Punta de Teno. The green colour in the left chief is symbolizing the regions fertility, finally giving the village its name
• The grashoppers are reminders of a legend: according to it, locusts had devastated the whole island in 1659; only Buenavista was by a miracle exempted
• The cactus a reference to a large example which formerly existed in the village, having the huge size of 148 sqm.
• The red colour of the bordure represents the same-coloured soil of the El Palmar-region.
• The inscription "Daute es mi bando" refers to the existence of the former Guanche mini-kingdom named "Daute."

Source: Simbolos De Canarias website by José Manuel Erbez

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Mar 2008