Last modified: 2025-05-02 by daniel rentería
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Each municipality in Zacatecas has its own municipal coat of arms, expect
Mezquital del Oro (the council told me there is no municipal coat of arms). Like
with most of the Federation, the process of municipal coat of arms adoptions saw
a spike in its start in the 1980's, then a smaller but still big one into the
1990's and gradually the movement started ending by the early 2000's.
The most common themes in the creations of municipal coats of arms are
agriculture and faith; cattle ranching on a lesser scale, but still common.
Agriculture is usually represented by fruits, vegetables,
or fields. Religion is represented by a local church or the patron saint of the
Municipality; sometimes his symbol (like the keys to Heaven), or a cross on a
hill. Most of the rural areas rely on
these for their economies. Because agriculture cannot really exist without
water, streams of water are sometimes also seen. On these local symbols, hills
often appear as prominent symbols, along with the flora of the region.
In some mountainous areas, municipality is an important industry, also depicted
on local symbols. A crossed pick and shovel
are a symbol of mining. Some try to evoke similarity to the coat of arms of the
state, and have the sun and moon. In the southwest: the Caxcán Indians who fought in the Mixtón War are sometimes seen.
Fewer Indians are seen in the coats of arms of the rest of the state.
Daniel Rentería, 18 April 2025
