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![[Municipality of Haría (Lanzarote Island, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Province, Canary Islands, Spain)]](../images/e/es-gc-hr.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Oct 2010
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I only spotted two towns in Lanzarote island with a flag of their own [not following the island flag pattern], Teguise and Haría. The flag of the town of Haría was very difficult to identify, as it was tied to the staff with many folds. I identified green, blue and yellow stripes/shapes on a white background, but was unable to tell out the pattern. No wonder! Have a look at the flag in Erbez's Symbols of the Canary Islands pages.
Source: personal visit to Lanzarote, May 1999
Santiago Dotor, 03 Jun 1999
The flag is horizontally divided into white over yellow over green over white with ratio 3:1:1:1. At the hoist is a light blue triangle pointing to the borderline between the yellow and green stripe. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
The flag was approved by order of the Consejeria de Presidencia y Turismo del Gobierno de Canarias dated 11 April 1994, published in BOC at 23 September 1994, the coat of arms on 15 March 1994, published in BOC at 27 April 1994.
Source: image based on a photo of the town hall, shot by Maren H. Ball in Apr 2010 in Harìa
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Oct 2010
The shield is divided per fess. The upper half is divided per pale. The 1st silvery (white) field shows a palm tree in natural colour (brownish) flanked by eight smaller trees, which are ordered vertically in quadruples. The 2nd green field shows a silvery and golden (white and yellow) open book topped by a radiant golden (yellow) sun with a face. The 3rd beige field at the bottom shows a purple volcano, topped by two small red flames over silver (white) and blue waves. Over the whole is superimposed a compass rose. The shield has a red bordure with four silvery (white) shrimp. The shield is topped by a royal crown.
According to [ebz07], p.130 the palm trees symbolize the village and its eight settlement cores. Book and sun symbolize its inhabitants' urge for knowledge. The volcano symbolizes the Montaña de la Corona. The compass rose symbolizes the municipality's location, at the island’s northern end. The shrimp are a endemic blind species, living only here, to be precise in a little lake in the cave of Los Verdes, which is connected by the volcanic tube Jameos del Agua to the volcano and the sea.
Source: image based on a photo of the town hall, shot by Maren H. Ball in Apr 2010 in Harìa
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Oct 2010