Catamarca Province (Argentina)

Provincia de Catamarca

Last modified: 2011-02-11 by francisco gregoric
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This province has no flag

• No current official provincial flag
• Provincial coat of arms
• Use of the provincial coat of arms in unofficial flags
• Historical flags of Catamarca
• Flag of 1815?
• Federal flag usage?

• Subdivisions of Catamarca Province
• Catamarca’s Social and Civic Front party coalition
• Argentina
• Argentine subdivisions (clickable map)

• Province of Catamarca Government official website
  Reported by Francisco Gregoric 03 Aug 2006

No current official provincial flag

Though there is a provincial logo (Sol de Catamarca, the Catamarcan Sun), and an official provincial coat of arms, Catamarca has not adopted any provincial flag.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Aug 2000, translated by António Martins

In 2002, a project of law was presented for the creation of a provincial flag of Catamarca. The author of that project was the justicialist (Peronist) provincial representative Nilda R. Navarro de Pandolfi. However no more news about this project have been heard.
Francisco Gregoric, 03 Aug 2006

According to www.parlamentario.com, 11 November 2007, the Provincial Assembly has approved the launching of a contest for a provincial flag. The Ministry of Education of the province will be in charge of the contest and shall set up the rules of selection of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 14 Nov 2007

Provincial coat of arms

The provincial coat of arms was created by Law No.934 of June 24, 1922.

It is a red French shaped coat of arms that has inside an ellipse with the classic Argentine coat of arms (sky blue and white with two arms holding a spear with a Phrigian cap).

The Cross over two arrows, stands for the action of the missionaries and the bunch of grapes stands for the Wine industry

The crown and the castle stand for the past rule of Spain over Catamarca territory.

Finally the coat of arms has a raising sun, four Argentine flags and a crown of laurel.
Francisco Gregoric, 03 Aug 2006

Use of the provincial coat of arms in unofficial flags

by Francisco Gregoric, 15 Aug 2006

In the Blue Hall of the Congress Palace in Buenos Aires City, meetings and commemorations are made by the National [Federal] Senate. As the senate is the branch of the Legislatuive Power that represents provinces, that hall is decorated with all the provincial flags.

However in the cases of the provinces with no official flag, a plain white flag with that province coat of arms at center is used as a kind of unofficial flags or way to represent the province. These designs are not used in the provinces themselves.

For Catamarca a plain white flag with the provincial coat of arms is used. The other province that is represented with this kind of unofficial flag is Córdoba. Before adopting its own provincial flag in 2009 Río Negro was also represented in this way.
Francisco Gregoric, 30 May 2006

Historical flags of Catamarca

There are not absolutely confirmed testimonies of the use of some flags during the 19 Century in Catamarca.
Francisco Gregoric, 03 Aug 2006

Flag of 1815?

Jorge Hurtado’s collection includes a vertical bicolor of white and blue labelled as Catamarcan flag of 1815.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Aug 2000, translated by António Martins

This flag was apparently raised on May 25, 1815, for the fifth anniversary of the first Argentine self government.
Francisco Gregoric, 14 Oct 2007

Federal flag usage?

It is believed that the flag of the Federal League was hoisted in Catamarca in early 1815.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Aug 2000, translated by António Martins

• Jaume Ollé’s page about Catamarca flags (in Spanish)

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