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Rio Caldo Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Rio Caldo, Concelho de Terras de Bouro, Distrito de Braga

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[Rio Caldo commune flag] 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 13 May 2025
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Rio Caldo Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 May 2025

Coat of Arms


[Rio Caldo commune CoA] image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 13 May 2025

Shield Or on a bend sinister wavy Azure a bendlet sinister wavy Argent accompanied in dexter chief by a Paschal Lamb Azure passant and in sinister base a grenade Sable flamant Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "RIO CALDO".
Meaning:
The phrase "rio caldo" means "hot river", but using a word ("caldo") that has become an archaism in this sense in modern Portuguese (the only normal meaning is that of noun "broth"). However this archaic acception is well known locally as it had lingered longer in the regional dialects and it is present in everyday Galician, spoken right across the nearby border, wherein this archaicization of the etymologically conservative acception (from Latin "calidus", later "caldus") never occured. The bend sinister wavy is canting.
The lamb on the arms, inspite of the coat colour mutation, is the Paschal Lamb, referring to St. John the Baptist, patron saint of the Catholic parish, this commune was derived from in the mid 19th century.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 May 2025

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 1 August 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 May 2025

Presentation of Rio Caldo

Rio Caldo is one of the 11 communes of Terras de Bouro Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 770 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 11,64 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 13 May 2025

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