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![[Flag of Uruguaiana,
RS (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-rs-473.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 August 2020
The municipality of Uruguaiana (125,515 inhabitants in 2010; 571,578 ha) is
located on the borders with Argentina and Uruguay, 650 km west of Porto Alegre.
The town is connected to its Argentine counterpart, Pasos de los Libres, by the
Getúlio Vargas / Agustín Justo international bridge spanning over river Uruguai
/ Uruguay.
Uruguaiana was established on 24 February 1843, as Capela do
Uruguai, by a Decree signed by General Bento Gonçalves da Silva, President of
the Riograndense Republic. The new settlement belonged to the municipality of
Alegrete, which was the last part of Rio Grande do Sul controlled by the
Ragamuffin insurgents. Accordingly, Uruguaiana is the only municipality to have
been established by the secessionist republic.
The municipality of Uruguaiana
was established by Law No. 58 proclaimed on 29 May 1846. Its limits were fixed
by the President of the Province on 3 August 1846.
Ivan Sache, 8 August 2020
The flag of Uruguaiana is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 1,284 promulgated
on 29 May 1975.
Article 1.
§1. The municipal flag shall feature the
colors of the coat of arms, as prescribed by Municipal Law No. 811 promulgated
on 18 August 1965, in this fundamental colors: red and blue, represented as
gules and azure.
§2. Red shall be placed in the flag's upper part and blue in
its lower part, in horizontal stripes, separated by a central white stripe,
matching the colors of the coat of arms.
§3. On the central field, in the
flag's center, the municipal coat of arms featured in its original colors
(town's mural crown, quartered shield, scroll argent and two armed lions as
supporters).
§4. As ornament of plant inspiration and a symbol of abundance,
two rice panicles beneath the the scroll and whose crossed stems enter the blue
stripe that ties the panicle's crown, golden yellow.
§5. At the junction of
the two stems, on the blue stripe, symbolized by a stylized loop [...]
§7.
The municipal flag is formed of a rectangle divided into three stripes as
prescribed in §2 of this Article, in proportions 20 x 14 units, the upper red
stripe of 4 units, the central white flag of 6 units, and the lower blue stripe
of 4 units.
§8. The coat of arms placed in the flag's center shall be
inscribed in an imaginary quadrilateral of 5 units on 4 units.
§10. The
municipal heraldic emblem shall have on its left border a stripe of 1 unit in
length and 14 units in width, in three colors, golden yellow surrounded by red
§12. The colors of the municipal emblem, taken from the coat of arms, are
influenced by gems of the same color; ruby, diamond and sapphire. The red stripe
recalls the bellicose and bloody period of the regional history in dozens of
years of struggle to define the borders of the fatherland. The white stripe,
bigger and central, charged with the coat of arms, highlights superior thoughts
of peace, as a token of friendship between neighboring nations, the people's
aspirations and the whiteness of its immense herds. The blue of the sky that
reflects in the immense waters of river Uruguai, represented on the coat of arms
by the third fess argent, completes the color's trilogy.
§13. The stripe
defined in §10 of this Article [...] symbolizes the great Spanish influence on
Uruguaiana's genealogy.
https://www.uruguaiana.rs.gov.br/uploads/legislacao/8653/lei1248.pdf
Municipal website
The coat of arms of Uruguaiana is prescribed by
Municipal Law No. 811 promulgated on 18 August 1965.
Article 1.
A
Portuguese quartered shield. In the first quarter, on a field azure two crossed
lances or recalling the town's foundation during the Ragamuffin period; in the
second quarter, on a field gules, the Uruguaiana Surrender Medal; in the third
quarter, on a field gules, a broken chain argent, recalling the release of
slaves in Uruguaiana four years before the proclamation of the Golden Law; in
the fourth quarter, on a field azure, three fesses wavy argent representing
river Uruguai, the town's namesake. A town's mural crown with four towers
argent. As supporters, two lions argent armed and langued gules, representing
the municipality's exceptional location, adjacent to two American countries. A
scroll argent with the town's name azure and the date of its foundation -
"24.2.1843".
https://www.uruguaiana.rs.gov.br/uploads/legislacao/8654/lei811.pdf
Municipal website
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeiturauruguaianaoficial/photos/a.246010982489168/949821948774731/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeiturauruguaianaoficial/photos/a.245561229200810/720377111719217/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeiturauruguaianaoficial/photos/a.245561229200810/548983468858583/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeiturauruguaianaoficial/photos/a.245561229200810/541342016289395/?type=3&theater
Image from the website of the Municipal Chamber
https://uruguaiana.rs.leg.br/arquivos/imagens/bandeira-de-uruguaiana/view
A flag used in less official context has equal stripes and lacks the Spanish stripes along the hoist.
![[Flag of Uruguaiana,
RS (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-rs-473a.gif)
image by André Pires Godinho, 7 March 2003
Ivan Sache, 8 August 2020
![[Flag of Instituto Estadual de Educação Elisa Ferrari Valls, Uruguaiana, RS (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-rs-473e.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 August 2020
The flag of IIEE Elisa Ferrari Valls is divided blue-red by a broad white
ascending diagonal, charged in the center with the school's emblem.
https://www.facebook.com/noticiaeinformacao1/photos/a.566795160441923/566795190441920/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 8 August 2020