Arequipa region (Peru)

Last modified: 2007-06-16 by antónio martins
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• Description of the flag
• Darker variant
• Pre-1992 version
• Charles Quint name flag

• Provinces (and/or their districts) with known flags in this region:
  • Arequipa
• Subnational flags of Peru
• Peru

Description of the flag

The flag of the Department and City of Arequipa. The colour is discribed as grenado, a light kind of red. This flag is surely the current one: There was one hanging on an offical building at main square of Arequipa city (Plaza de Armas). It was long time used, so it was teared up and, by the strong sunlight in 2300 m altitude, lightend to orange. But I spoke with several inhabitants and all said the right colour is grenado.
Jan-Patrick Fischer, 27 Mar 2001

About the flag of Arequipa, I can confirm that this color () is the same colour as a flag, I photographed in a shop. [Not dark.]
Jan-Patrick Fischer, 24 Oct 2003

Darker variant

Description of a color is very complicate. Accoding dates I received the flag is intense red, and this is the color of the flower called Mastuerzo (locally Taxao) that I dont know as is exactly. I submited the pre 1992 and the post 1992 versions and they were considered OK by at less two peruvian vexillologist. Then I assume that the color is close to the correct one.
Jaume Ollé, 24 Oct 2003

Pre-1992 version

The pre 1992 dark sour cherry or garnet flag.
Jaume Ollé, 24 Oct 2003

Charles Quint name flag

Three-colored version

At Wikipedia, a detailed image of the coat of arms includes a flaglet waved by the crest eagle with white upper case letters reading "Karlos" on the middle stripe of a rectangular horizontal stripped flag of red, yellow and blue, in approximate proportions of 1+1+4+1+1.
António Martins, 13 Feb 2006

Yellow on red

I made a picture of a Arequipa flag in a shop, when I was there in 2001. The Karlos flag isn’t swallow-tailed and the letters are yellow.
J. Patrick Fischer, 14 Feb 2006

White on red swallowtail

The images above show a version of the coat of arms which includes a red swalowtail flaglet waved by the crest eagle with white upper case letters reading "Karlos".
António Martins, 13 Feb 2006

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