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Pinheiro Machado, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

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[Flag of Pinheiro Machado, image by Ivan Sache, 2 August 2020


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Municipality

The municipality of Pinheiro Machado (12,780 inhabitants in 2010; 22,496 ha) is located 270 km south-west of Porto Alegre.

Pinheiro Machado, one of Rio Grande do Sul's oldest municipalities, was transferred in 1830 from Rio Grande to the newly established municipality of Piratini.
The settlement originates in a camp established by travelers near a natural well ("cacimba"), soon organized as the village of Cacimbinhas. The chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Light was erected on a plot offered on 10 April 1851 by Dutra de Andrade, who had miraculously recovered vision after having poured water from the well on his eyes. The settlement was administratively organized by Law No. 215 promulgated on 10 November 1851. Elevated to a parish in 1857, Nossa Senhora da Luz das Cacimbinhas was granted municipal status, as Cacimbinhas, on 24 February 1879.
Cacimbinhas was renamed to Pinheiro Machado upon order of Provisional Intendent Ney Lima Costa, after Senator José Gomes Pinheiro Machado (1851-1915; known as the Constable of the Republic) had been murdered in Rio de Janeiro by Francisco Manso de Paiva Coimbra, an inhabitant of the region of Cacimbinhas. The name change did not please the local population, who expelled the intendent from the town.

http://www.pinheiromachado.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 2 August 2020


Symbols

The flag of Pinheiro Machado is a yellow-green-red horizontal tricolor, with a central white oval bearing the municipal arms.

The origin of the town is recalled in the shield's lower part by the well ("cacimba") around which the town of Cacimbinhas developed.

Image from the municipal website
http://www.pinheiromachado.rs.gov.br/hinos-e-simbolos/

Ivan Sache, 2 August 2020