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Riqueza, Santa Catarina (Brazil)

image by Ivan Sache, 5 November 2021

Municipality
Description of the flag

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Municipality

The municipality of Riqueza (4;838 inhabitants in 2010; 19,040 ha) is located 600 km west of Florianópolis.

Ivan Sache, 5 November 2021

Description of the Flag

A blue-yellow-green east-west rising diagonal tricolour, with a red stripe in the middle of the yellow band, and with the municipal arms in a white disk in the centre.

Official website at http://www.riqueza.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 30 July 2012

The flag features the green, blue, golden (yellow), red and white colors.
Green represents forest resources ("riqueza").
Blue represents water and the sky.
The flag is diagonally crossed along the diagonal running from the lower left to the upper right canton, representing Riqueza's growth and evolution.
Golden (yellow) symbolizes resources ["riqueza"], while red symbolizes the force and courage of the immigrants who developed the place.
White is a symbol of peace and harmony that formed the municipality and guided up to now.

https://www.riqueza.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/20458
Municipal website

The shield's supporters, maize and beans, the main crops in the region, highlight Riqueza as a mostly rural municipality.
In base, the sun enlightens with its golden rays the resources of the municipality, also symbolizing dawn, life, birth and rebirth.
Or symbolizes wealth ["riqueza"]. When the early colonists developed the area, they were dazzled by the resources in trees and called the place Riqueza. So, in base, the tree and the sun allude to the municipality's historical origin.
From the tree, the soil and the sun, emerge the other resources of the municipality (commerce, education, fruit cultivation, crops, agriculture and cattle-breeding), which are the municipality's life and material, social and cultural resources.

https://www.riqueza.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/20455
Municipal website

Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituraderiqueza/photos/2750820621674498
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituraderiqueza/photos/2436086066481290
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituraderiqueza/photos/2436085556481341
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituraderiqueza/photos/2424734364283127

Ivan Sache, 5 November 2021