Terras de Bouro Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2007-06-09 by antónio martins
Keywords: terras de bouro | coat of arms | goat: iberian mountain goat | deer: roe deer | mountain |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Terras de Bouro

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Terras de Bouro at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Terras de Bouro at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

On green, the municipal coat of arms. Argent, on a mound vert lined sable, a Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) proper. Mural crown argent, with four towers (town rank) and white scroll with black letters reading "TERRAS DE BOURO". António Martins, 30 Nov 1998

The coat of arms refers to the natural heritage of the Gerês mountains, located mainly in this municipality.
António Martins, 30 Nov 1998

I guess it is rather a mountain, not a hill, as it shows black and green on a rocky pattern. The beast on it might very well be an Iberian Mountain Goat (Capra pyrenaica, in portuguese Cabra-montês), but my guess is that it is a Roe Deer (in portuguese Corc,o) instead.
António Martins, 11 Dec 1999

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Terras de Bouro

Terras de Bouro is located in the Braga District, old province of Minho, covering 269 km² in 17 communes with 9300 inhabitants.
António Martins, 30 Nov 1998

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