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image located by Jayden Davis-Tope, 20 October 2022See also:
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I’ve seen one post on Facebook that depicts the Olancho with a broad blue
band and green ring, but I’m not sure if it’s accurate.
Jayden Davis-Tope, 20 October 2022
I did some more looking into the flag and I was able to learn more. From my
understanding it seems that the Olancho Department officially has no flag.
I followed a lead from the flag I sent you in October and found a man called
Wilmer Galeano who comes from the region but now lives in the US. He gave me an
overview of his design and I've translated it from Spanish for you:
"The
Olancho flag was made by me, generally the Honduran flag has three stripes, two
blue and one white in the middle with the five stars. I did the opposite, two
white stripes and one blue in the middle with a green circle that symbolizes the
"O" for Olancho and green because Olancho has always been called a green
department because of the forests and natural reserves that exist.
Someone
copied my design and made a flag with two white stripes and a green one in the
center with a blue circle that symbolizes the "O" for Olancho as well and I
added 23 stars symbolizing the 23 municipalities of Olancho, at first the idea
also occurred to me to add 22 white stars in the "O" of Olancho and a bigger
blue star in the center symbolizing the departmental head that is the city of
Juticalpa."
Wilmer also expressed a strong desire in the Olancho
Department becoming independent from Honduras which is why he designed the flag
I think. From searching other sources and information it seems the region has
never had an offical flag and these two variants that are on the internet now
are very recent creations.
Jayden Davis-Tope, 13 December 2022
image by Fred Drews, 17 April 2019
Wikipedia
reports this flag with 23 white stars in the ring.
Rob Raeside, 21
October 2022