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São Francisco de Assis, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

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São Francisco de Assis, RS (Brazil) image by Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020


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Municipality

The municipality of São Francisco de Assis (19,258 inhabitants in 2010; 250,130 ha) is located 485 km of Porto Alegre.

São Francisco de Assis is named for the São Francisco de Assis fort established in 1801 on the left bank of river Inhacundá. The settlement of the village that developed nearby was initiated in 1809.
The municipality of São Francisco de Assis was established by Law No. 1,427 promulgated on 4 January 1884, separating from São Vicente and Itaqui.

https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website

Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020


Symbols

A yellow flag with a broad off-centred red cross, bearing the municipal arms in a white disk on the cross.
Dirk Schönberger
, 30 March 2012

The flag and arms of São Francisco de Assis are prescribed by a Municipal Law [data not available].

Article 6.
The flag of São Francisco de Assis, designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro Escobar for Comércio Mundial de Bandeiras Ltda, is described as follows.
Rectangular, yellow with a red cross charged on the arm's crossing with a white circle featuring the coat of arms described in Article 19.

Article 19.
The coat of arms of São Francisco de Assis, designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro Escobar, is described as follows.
An Iberian shield, or, with a mantle gules cantoned in chief by two trilobate Greek crosses of the same. A bordure azure charged with the cordon of St. Francis. The shield surmounted by an eight-towered mural crown argent ports sable. The shield supported dexter by a soybean plant in base a wheat spike and sinister by a maize plant in base a rive panicle all leaved and fructed proper. A scroll gules with the toponym "SÃO FRANCISCO DE ASSIS" or.

https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/795/bandeira
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/794/brasao
Municipal website

Photos
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Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020