Municipality of Cabeza del Caballo (Salamanca Province, Castile and Leon, Spain)

Last modified: 2011-01-07 by eugene ipavec
Keywords: cabeza del caballo | crown: royal (closed) | horse's head (white) | oak |
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See also:

• Salamanca Province (Castile and Leon, Spain)
• Castile and Leon (Castilla y León, Spain)
• Spain

Description

The municipality of Cabeza del Caballo (413 inhabitants in 2009, 4,498 ha) is located in the noth-west of the Salamanca Province, 90 km from the provincial capital.

Ivan Sache, 20 Oct 2010

The flag and arms of Cabeza del Caballo are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 18 December 2008 by the Municipal Council, signed on 5 March 2009 by the Mayor, and published on 13 March 2009 in the official gazette of Castile and Leon, No. 50, p. 8,306. Designed by Vicente Tocino Letrado and D. Tomás Rodríguez Peñas, and approved by the Chronicler of Arms of Castile and Leon, the symbols are described as follows:

Municipal flag. Rectangular flag in proportions 2:3, made of two equal vertical stripes, at hoist red with a white horse's head, at fly white with seven equal wavy stripes, four white and three blue.

Coat of arms. Tierced per bend sinister, 1. Gules a horse's head argent, 2. azure a bend sinister wavy azure fimbriated argent, 3. Or an oak eradicated vert. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The horse's head is canting for the name of the municipality (in Spanish, "Horse's Head"). The waves must represent the river Uces.

Ivan Sache, 20 Oct 2010