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by Guillermo T. Aveledo Coll, 10 January 2003
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Tonight, seeing the news, I saw an act of "Gente del
Petróleo" ("Petroleum People": a group of the Venezuelan Petroleum Organizatión -
PDVSA involved on the recent situation) on Cabimas
Municipality, Zulia State.
In this act, appears a Flag in prominent site. It was not the
Zulian, nevertheless looks a sub-state territorial flag, that's
to say, a municipality one. Since the act were on Cabimas and the
Municipality Mayor were there, I'm supposed that it was the flag
of that municipality.
I'll go to describe the flag, according to which I saw on TV and
could note on my notebook. It's a field with approximate ratio
1:2 divided on three unequal and horizontal stripes: sky-blue,
green and black (the sky-blue with double of wide of the rest. On
the center of the blue stripe we can see a yellow half circle,
that could be a sun. I'm not sure that it haves rays or not, but
I'm suppose that if it haves, it had to be short. Inside that sun
and lowering until the black stripe, we can appreciate a figure
that looks like an oil-tower. I'm sure that is ionexact the
number of beams of my image of the tower, but I thing that is
approximate to the real one. The chromatic shades used on this
flag seems to reinforce the incredible tendency demonstrated by
another states and municipalities, prefering combinations which
contains blue and green like happens in the cases of the States
of Miranda, Portuguesa and Barinas, sometimes including too the
yellow, like in the cases of Bolivar, Guarico, Falcon and Apure.
In the same way, its reinforces the use of the sun like
predominant symbol in Venezuelan Vexillology, at least in some
reports we have sended until now (like appears in the
States of Zulia, Lara, Cojedes, Portuguesa, Aragua, Barinas,
Carabobo, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Vargas, Yaracuy and Monagas, or
in the Municipalities of Araure, Lecherias, Ureña, Torres and
Zamora), without mention its heraldic use, that also has presence
on flags.
Like peculiar data, it's necessary to say that the Andean States
and Municipalities seems prefer the star like predominant symbol.
I don't know the reason of this.
Guillermo T. Aveledo Coll (translated by Raul Orta),
10 January 2003
From <www.alcaldiadecabimas.gov.ve>:
"EL SOL: Representa la región cálida bañada por un
resplandeciente y brillante sol.
TALADRO: Representa la región Petrolera, primera del país,
elemento que identifica la fuerza de trabajo, y potencial
económico predominante.
AZUL: Corresponde al inmenso cielo y al hermoso lago que bordea
al municipio.
VERDE: Corresponde a la región agrícola y ganadera del
municipio.
NEGRO: Corresponde al Petróleo, principal producto generador de
trabajo.
La Bandera Oficial del Municipio Cabimas fue enarbolada por
primera vez el 12 de Marzo del 2.001, por el Alcalde del Munipio
Cabimas, Hernan Aleman. Siendo su creadora la Arquitecto Maribel
Rosillón".
Flag of Cabimas which looks a bit different is at <www.cabimas.8m.com>.
Dov Gutterman, 15 September 2003 and 11 April 2004
