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Morro Agudo, São Paulo State (Brazil)

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Morro Agudo, SP (Brazil) image by Dirk Schönberger, 13 December 2012
Based on: http://www.morroagudo.sp.gov.br/?secao=sobremunicipio/simbolos.htm


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Description of the Flag

A blue flag with an upright red cross, bordered deep yellow, with the municipal arms in the centre in a deep yellow lozenge.

Official website at http://www.morroagudo.sp.gov.br  
Dirk Schönberger, 13 December 2012

The municipality of Morro Agudo (29,127 inhabitants in 2010; 13,862 ha) is located 400 km of São Paulo.

Morro Agudo (lit. "Sharp Hill") developed in the Invernada Estate, owned by the Junqueira family, whose Portuguese ancestors settled in Minas Gerais in the middle of the 18th century. The settlement formed the district of São José do Morro Agudo, part of the municipality of Espírito Santo dos Batatais. The municipality of Monte Agudo was established in 1934 and inaugurated on 6 January 1935.

The symbols of Morro Agudo are prescribed in Article 3 of the Municipal Constitution, without further description, as "a flag, a coat of arms and an anthem, representative of its culture and history".

The flag and arms of Morro Agudo are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 415 of 23 April 1969.

The flag is blue, quartered by a cross made of yellow-red-yellow stripes. In the middle of the flag is placed a yellow lozenge charged with the municipal coat of arms.
http://www.camaramorroagudo.sp.gov.br/brasaobandeira.htm - Website of the Municipal Council

Photos of the flag:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zacognette/6703951933
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olharmorroagudo/2597843769
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/53090538
http://www.morroagudo.sp.gov.br/?secao=noticias/noticias.asp&materia=2319

The coat of arms is "A Samnitic shield surmounted by a six-towered mural crown argent. Argent an escutcheon pally or and gules surmounted by a lion rampant or grafted in base or two lilies proper crossed per saltire. The shield supported dexter by a plant of maize and sinister by a plant of rice, the two proper. Below the shield a scroll gules inscribed with the toponym 'MORRO AGUDO" in letters argent, by the years '1860' and '1935' of the same."
http://www.camaramorroagudo.sp.gov.br/brasaobandeira.htm - Website of the Municipal Council
Ivan Sache, 15 December 2012