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Educadora Radio, 17 November 2020
The municipality of Taió (17,265 inhabitants in 2010; 69,303 ha) is located
270 km west of Florianópolis.
Taió, originally Tayó, is named for a
Tupi-Guarani word meaning "a big stone" / "a big hill", refering to Funil Hill,
which was mistaken by early explorers for the genuine Tayó Hill, actually
located in Mirim Doce. Emil Odebrecht reached Taió in 1864 during the
exploration of the upper valley of the Itajaí. In 1867, a second expedition
initiated in Lages reached rivers Taió and West Itajaí. The first colonists
settled in 1892, coming from Lages. The colonization was subsequently fostered
by the Sindicato Blumenauense and the Companhia Salinger, which offered in 1917
plots to colonists of German origin. A third company, Colonizadora Bertoli,
brought Italian colonists in 1920.
The district of Taió was established on 7
September 1929 within the municipality of Blumenau. The municipality of Taió was
established by State Law No. 247, separating from Rio do Sul, and inaugurated on
12 February 1949.
https://www.taio.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021
A horizontal bicolour, blue over yellow, with the municipal arms in the centre on a white lozenge.
Official website at
http://www.taio.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger,
15 August 2012
The flag and arms of Taió are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 4,212
promulgated on 8 October 2020.
Article 2.
The municipal colors are
yellow, blue and white.
Article 9.
The coat of arms of the
municipality of Taió is composed of an Iberian shield in rounded-off, hybrid
shape, featuring in the upper part (chief) two protrusions, left and right,
surmounted by a five-towered mural crown, classifying a municipality
represented with the gray color, each tower with a black gate.
Article
10.
The municipal coat of arms is composed of a shield with a map of Santa
Catarina charged in the center with a star, the Heteropecten catharinae
shell, a yellow stripe inscribed "1917 TAIÓ 1949", a log, three stacked planks,
a chimney, a mural crown, a milk tank, a maize plant, a tobacco plant, a
cogwheel filled with a blue sky and a sun, the Funil hill, and a barrage with
downstream water.
Article 11.
The structures composing the coat of
arms have the following meaning.
I - The star in the center of the map of
Santa Catarina represents the location of the municipality of Taió.
II - The
Heteropecten catharinae shell is a fossil, representing
paleontological research in Taió.
III - The stripe inscribed "1917 TAIÓ
1949" recalls two significant dates for the municipality, "1917" for the
colonization and "1949" for political emancipation.
IV - The log and the
planks represent the abundance of timber in the beginning of the colonization,
at the origin of the timber cycle and the building of several sawmills in the
municipality.
V - The chimney is the municipality's historic and economic
symbol, representing the era of ceramics industry.
VI - The mural crown has
five visible towers classifying Taió as a town and the seat of a county.
VII
- The milk tank representing milk production, in straight economic development.
VIII - The maize plant, supporting the shield's left side, represents one of
the main productions in the beginning of the colonization and still a basic
product for food industry.
IX - The tobacco plant, supporting the shield's
right side, represents tobacco production, recalling that Taió was once among
Santa Catarina's most important centers of production.
X - The wheel with 18
cogs represents the diversity of the industrial, agricultural and commercial
production.
XI - The sun symbolizes vitality and the splendor of the
municipality in its plenitude.
XII - Funil hill is the source of river Taió,
also used as the municipality's name and historical part of the municipality of
Taió.
XIII - The West Barrage built to protect the valley against flood
turned into the municipality's tourism and cultural reference.
Article
12.
The colors of the coat of arms of the municipality are:
I - Yellow,
representing wealth, life, light and the sun's shining rays.
II - Blue, a
symbol of calm, serenity and harmony, representing the sky and watercourses
flowing through the municipality.
III - White, a symbol of purity,
representing peace, balance and equality.
IV - Ochre, as the color of art,
representing the transformation of clay into bricks and tiles used in civil
construction.
V - Gray, as the color of neutrality and innocence, is
connected to maturity, immortality, responsibility and efficience.
VI -
Orange is the color of fall and fruit picking, representing glee, enthusiasm
and eagerness of people to work.
VII - Brown, the color of soil and timber,
is connected with natural products that foster the municipality's development.
VIII - Black is a symbol of mourning and respect for the value and history of
the ancestors.
IX - Green represents hope, vivid natural environment,
liberty, health and vitality.
X - Red is the symbol of ardor and faith,
representing patriotic love, dedication and audacity of the colonists who
cleared Taió's territory.
Article 16.
The coat of arms in the center
of the flag symbolizes the municipal government while the white lozenge charged
with the coat of arms represents the town proper as seat of the municipality.
The upper blue field represents the municipality's exuberant environment, while
the yellow lower part is a symbol of wealth, life, light and the sun's shining
rays.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/t/taio/lei-ordinaria/2020/421/4212/lei-ordinaria-n-4212-2020-dispoe-sobre-a-forma-e-apresentacao-do-brasao-da-bandeira-e-do-hino-do-municipio-de-taio-e-da-outras-providencias
Leis Municipais database
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021
image by
Educadora Radio, 17 November 2020
The symbols were originally prescribed in a quite elusive wording by
Municipal Law No. 972 promulgated on 23 February 1979.
Article 2.
The
coat of arms, with a red background, shall be inscribed on a white lozenge, with
"1917 TAIÓ 1949" on a golden yellow background.
The circle [ellipse] that
forms the lozenge's sides shall be 31 cm in width and 49 cm in length, being
centered on the rectangle that forms the flag.
Article 3.
The flag is
composed of two horizontal stripes of equal size, blue and yellow, respectively.
Article 4.
The official dimensions [of the flag] shall be 120 cm in
length on 90 cm in width.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/t/taio/lei-ordinaria/1979/98/972/lei-ordinaria-n-972-1979-dispoe-sobre-a-criacao-da-bandeira-e-o-brasao-do-municipio-de-taio
Leis Municipais database
The general design of the flag was kept but
the coat of arms was slightly amended, changing a few details and adding new
charges. The mural crown was increased from three red to five gray towers, the
star was recolored in white, a shell was added in canton sinister and a milk
tank was added behind the log and planks.
https://www.educadora.am.br/noticia/imagem-da-nova-bandeira-de-taio-e-divulgada/
Educadora Radio, 17 November 2020
As of August 2021, the flag with the
old coat of arms was still in use, while the new flag did not appear to have
been produced yet.
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituradeTaioComunicacao/photos/539069134207548
https://redewebtv.net.br/equipe-de-atletismo-de-taio-e-destaque-na-16ᵃ-corrida-e-caminhada-cerene-2021-em-blumenau/
https://www.jatv.com.br/noticias/taio/taió-homenageia-blumenau-1.2164650
https://www.facebook.com/camarataio/photos/2404779449788025
https://www.facebook.com/camarataio/photos/1817406868525289
The Taió
fossil record, composed mostly of bivalves (shells), brachiopods (lamp shells)
and echinoderms (urchins), was discovered in 1928 by mining engineer and
geologist Anibal Alves Bastos. Similarity with bivalves found in New South Wales
(Australia) was soon noticed by paleontologists. Euzébio de Oliveira, Director
of the Brazilian Geology and Mineralogy Service, offered in 1929 the fossils to
Cowper Reed, a noted paleontologist in Cambridge. Reed identified in 1930 and
1935 several scallop species, including Aviculopecten (Deltopecten)
catharinae. In 1951, Kegel & Costa assigned the fossil scallops to a new
genus, Heteropecten, describing two new species and a variety (H.
catharinae var. dyglipha). In 1964, A.C. Rocha Campos established that all
the different Heteropecten species and varieties were morphological
variants of the very same species, Heteropecten catharinae (Reed,
1930). Rocha Campos also established a high level of endemicity in the Taió
fossil record, turning down the proposed connection with Australian records.
http://mw.eco.br/ig/posg/tesesBrasil.pdf
Banco de Dados sobre Teses - IG/UnB, pp. 14-15
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021