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Coronel Rosales District (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)

Partido de Coronel Rosales

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[Flag of Coronel Rosales] image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 April 2024
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About the district

Coronel Rosales Partido is a partido on the southern coast of Buenos Aires Province, 650 km south of Buenos Aires city.


Description of the flag

It seems that the flag of the Partido of Coronel Rosales was designed in 2002, but wasn't officially adopted until 2021, but I can't open the link in the explanation

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandera_del_Partido_de_Coronel_Rosales.jpg
Valentin Poposki, 23 December 2023

The flag of Coronel Rosales District was adopted as official on 29 October 2021 by Ordinance No. 4078. The ordinance provides some information to reinforce its adoption and make its status be understood (such as Article 3, which says that it shouldn't be treated as higher in status than the provincial and national flag). It also has some background information and information on its design. It does show an image of the flag, provided by Valentin to here, and provides some regulations.

The flag was designed in 2002 by participants of the project named "A Flag For Coronel Rosales". The official description is in the document and translated below:

"With a full sky blue background, a green triangular figure rises from the base, which is divided by two horizontal bands that allow a flow between the figure and the background. At the top portion, two identical synthetic shapes face each other, representative of ears of wheat, and in orange close the design."

As for the symbolism:
"Sky blue represents the immensity of the sea which bathes the coast of Coronel Rosales and the naval base Puerto Belgrano. The green triangle symbolizes the fertility and richness of the area's land, furthermore, it alludes to the form of the dunes which conform to a geographic accident; these dunes gives a name to Punta Alta and the pines of Pehuen Co. The rectangular bands of the triangle allude to the railroad, which promoted the foundation of Punta Alta, in addition to representing the roads that connect the city and the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base."

"The ears of wheat become orange, the result of the union of the color red, symbol of federalism, with yellow. The yellow of it is representative of wheat plantations and the sun. The leaves of the spikes are scalene triangles, representing the shape of the District of Marine Colonel Leonardo Rosales, being in pairs, five pairs being on each ear. These refer to the five localities that make up the district: Punta Alta; Villa Arias; Pehuen Co; Villa del Mar and the Rural Area, Bajo Hondo; Calderón and Paso Mayor. They represent wealth, triumph, progress and hope as characteristics of the district." If more explanation is needed for the first part, think of an RGB spectrum. Orange is between yellow and red in the spectrum. When you add red to yellow, it becomes orange.

Official color information: Sky blue is Pantone Process Blue U; green is Pantone 376 U; orange is Pantone 151 U. Also, the proportions of the flag should only be rectangular.

Daniel Rentería, 24 December 2023

This flag is light blue with a (light) green triangle on its lower side and two highly stylized (light) orange wheat ears: The base of the triangle fills up the whole lower edge of the flag, its apex doesn’t reach the center, and there are two light blue horizontal stripes crossing it, visible only as negative space. The wheat ears each consist of five pairs of grains on a central stalk, highly stylized to be simple triangles, each ear on either side of the green triangle, arched around the center of the flag.

A link on Wikipedia gives a PDF document hosted at the official website, available at https://hcdrosales.gob.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4078-O662021-Oficializa-bandera-del-distrito.pdf. I downloaded it safely; the security warning seems to be a false positive. It’s only two pages, the first with the law text and the 2nd with the flag image.

The flag image in this legal document is mangled due to compression than the one in the Wikipedia Commons and indeed the whole page content (except header and footer) is one single JPEG image, likely dating back to the mentioned original creation date of 2002.

The official description is really funny: Under the promising title "Vexilología" it specifies that the shape of the flag should be "rectangular" with no indication of an exact ratio (nor any other geometric specs), while for the three colors there are prescribed PMS values ("Azul celeste, Pantone Process Blue U", "Verde, Pantone 376 U", and "Anaranjado, Pantone 151 U"): So, what should be exact is prescribed as loosely as possible, and what should be lax is given strict details — which are then readily disregarded in the image itself, showing lighter shades for both green and blue, and a brighter orange (maybe Coated was used/meant instead of Uncoated?).

The image of the flag on this page 2 of the law cannot be used to ascertain the ratio, as the whole is visibly stretched horizontally (letterforms noticeably misshapen), and the textual specification is insufficiently detailed. On the page is shows quite oblong, at 8:15, and less so in the Wikimedia Commons image, at 5:8 — likely thusly squeezed upon positing that the palm fronds should curve along a circular path and that all triangles are identical — which seems wise, unlike the decision of recreating the flag image in JPEG format, and the wrong rendering of the prescribed PMS colors (shown even more lighter / brighter than in the law image).

António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 April 2024


Villa General Arias

[Flag of Villa General Arias] image by Ivan Sache, 23 October 2021

Villa General Arias (locally, Villa Arias; 1,845 inhabitants in 2010), part of the district municipality of Coronel de Marina Leonardo Rosales (Coronel Rosales), is located 10 km north of Punta Alta.

Villa Arias emerged around the branch of the South Railway connecting Bahia Blanca to Punta Alta, which as inaugurated on 1 November 1898. In 1905, Eleodoro Lobos, Ramón López Lecube and Mauricio Mayer acquired a part of the big domain owned by Gregorio Torres, Juan Martínez and Aristóbulo Durañona, which they sold the next year to César Martelli and Amalia Belli. They planned to found a new town named Colonia América; Juan Vaquer, appointed farmer, can be considered as the first inhabitant of the new settlement. In 1912, he acquired a plot from his employers, where he would stay until 1917.
The landlords offered plots to build the railway station and ,around it, offered first plots for sale. In 1917, they appointed engineer Frederico Del Ponte to delimit a urban structure on both sides of the railway, and farms. The same year, the estate was acquired by Banco Español del Río de la Plata, who hired Fernando Segovia to revamp the plan of the town, which was restricted to only one side of the railway. Completed in 1921, the new planning included plots for a school, a church, a square, a slaughterhouse, etc.
In 1922, the inauguration of a branch of the Rosario-Puerto Belgrano railway allowed connection of Villa Arias with Bahia Blanca. The town experienced another demographic boom in the 1970s, when 380 dwellings were built for the civil and military workers of neighboring Puerto Belgrano, Argentine's biggest naval base.

Colonia América was renamed to Villa General Arias in 1912.
José Inocencio Arias (1846-1912) fought during the Paraguayan War and the Conquest of the Desert. He was elected several times National Deputy and Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1910). In 1911, he visited Bahia Blanca to promote the establishment of a new province separated from Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Río Negro, whose capital would be Bahia Blanca. After the announcement of the general's death, César Martelli changed the name of the plan town to Villa Arias.
For a few years in the 1940s, Villa Arias was renamed to Villa Pinazo, as a tribute to Manuel de Pinazo (1718-1792), a landlord and commander of the borders of the Vice Kingdom of Río de la Plata, who explored the region in 1775.

http://www.archivodepunta.com.ar/2018/10/31/villa-general-arias-su-historia-y-sus-lugares/
Punta Alta municipal archives.

The flag of Villa Arias is prescribed by Ordinance No. 2,049 issued on 23 July 2021 by the Municipal Council of Coronel Rosales.

Article 1.
The official flag of Villa General Arias, District of Coronel de Marina Leonardo Rosales, Province of Buenos Aires, shall be the flag traditionally used as the town's representative symbol, whose design and meaning are detailed in Appendix I of this Ordinance.

Appendix 1.
Formed of three equal stripes arranged horizontally.
Upper stripe: Green, representing the place's vegetation.
Middle stripe: Yellow, the color of quinces, the place's characteristic fruits.
Lower stripe: Brown, symbol of the place's soil.

https://hcdrosales.gob.ar/?lsvr_document=4049-bandera-de-villa-arias
Coronel Rosales municipal website

The flag was inaugurated on 19 October 2021.

https://viapais.com.ar/punta-alta/es-oficial-villa-arias-tiene-bandera-escudo-y-cancion/
Noticias de Punta Alta, 20 October 2021

Ivan Sache, 23 October 2021