Municipality of Peque (Zamora Province, Castile and Leon, Spain)

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• Municipal Flags (Spain)
• Zamora Province (Castile and Leon / Castilla y León, Spain)
• Castile and Leon (Castilla y León, Spain)
• Peque (Colombia)

The municipality of Peque (174 inhabitants in 2009; 3,920 ha) is located 90 km north of Zamora.

Ivan Sache, 02 Feb 2010

In "La Opinión de Zamora," Belén Alonso reports the adoption of the flag and arms of Peque, having had no record of any flag or arms. The symbols were to be officially presented in the town hall for a period of public information that should have ended with a public meeting scheduled to 5 April.

Source: "La Opinión de Zamora," 02 Feb 2010

The flag and arms of Peque are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 29 October 2009 by the Municipal Council, signed on 18 November 2009 by the Mayor, and published on 7 December 2009 in the official gazette of Castile and Leon, No. 234, p. 34,440. Designed by Vicente Tocino Letrado and D. Tomás Rodríguez Peņas, 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 three horizontal stripes in proportions 1/4, 1/2 and 1/4, green on top, white with a wolf passant noir with a red tongue in the middle, blue on bottom.

Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Argent a wolf passant sable langued gules surrounded by two oaks eradicated vert, 2. Azure a wavy fess argent charged with a trout azure. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

Source: http://bocyl.jcyl.es/boletines/2009/12/07/pdf/BOCYL-D-07122009-13.pdf

Ivan Sache, 02 Feb and 20 Oct 2010