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Salete, Santa Catarina (Brazil)

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[Flag of Salete, Santa Catarina image by Ivan Sache, 7 November 2021


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Municipality

The municipality of Salete (7,357 inhabitants in 2010; 17,931 ha) is located 250 km north-west of Florianópolis.

Salete was colonized in 1925 by German, Italian and Ukrainian immigrants. The district of Ribeirão Grande was established in 1949 within the municipality of Taió, to be elevated a municipality renamed to Salete by State Law No. 799 promulgated on 29 December 1961.
Salete is named for Our Lady of La Salette, whose statue was placed in 1943 on Sanctuary Hill near a seminary ruled by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

https://www.salete.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website

Ivan Sache, 7 November 2021


Description of the Flag

Divided per bend, white over blue, with the municipal shield in the centre.

Official website at http://www.salete.sc.gov.br 
Dirk Schönberger, 31 July 2012

The flag of Salete is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 155 promulgated on 25 November 1970.

Article 1.
The municipal flag of the municipality of Salete, symbolizing its people, land and traditions, shall have the following characteristics.
The municipal flag of the municipality of Salete was conceived to symbolize the love of Salete people for the land and to foster an ever more efficient opportunity under the protection of the patron saint, Our Lady of La Salette.
Its shape is rectangular, of 20 cm in length on 14 cm in width.
It shall be divided by a diagonal running from the upper hoist, the upper triangle shall be white, symbolizing peace and tenderness, and the lower blue, meaning loyalty to the community and the land.
In the center is placed a pentagonal shield, with a white background; in base, waves representing Ribeirão Grande, as well as hills and mounts.
In the central part, adjacent, on the left a green coniferous tree and on the right a brown half cogwheel, meaning the municipality's main sources of income. In the upper part, a crown or as a tribute and dedication to the Queen of the Heavens.

https://www.salete.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/103958
Municipal website

Photos
https://www.facebook.com/Prefeituradesalete/photos/1859323114222277
https://www.facebook.com/Prefeituradesalete/photos/1520065888148003

Ivan Sache, 7 November 2021

[Flag of Salete, Santa Catarina image by Ivan Sache, 7 November 2021

The flag is also used without the blue border.

Photos
https://www.salete.sc.gov.br/noticias/index/ver/codNoticia/511714/codMapaItem/8037 
https://www.educadora.am.br/noticia/participacao-de-saletense-no-programa-eliana-vai-ao-ar-no-proximo-domingo-08/

Ivan Sache, 7 November 2021