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image by Miguel Carrillo Bascary, 20 September 2019The municipality of Pergamino (104,590 inhabitants in 2010; 30,100 ha) is
located on the border with the Province of Santa Fe, 265 km north-west of Buenos
Aires and 120 km south of Rosario. The municipality is composed of the town of
Pergamino (91,399 inh.), of the 12 rural villages of J. A. de la Peña, Acevedo,
Guerrico, La Violeta, Fontezuela, Urquiza, Pinzón, Alfonzo, Manuel Ocampo, El
Socorro, Mariano Benítez and Rancagua (all together, 9,482 inh.), and another
3,709 scattered inhabitants.
Pergamino emerged without any official
foundation document. The place was first mentioned, as La Dormida del Pergamino,
in a document of the government dated 1626. The settlement was probably
established between 1586 ans 1600, when traffic between Buenos Aires and Upper
Peru increased. Located at the junction of roads headed to Buenos Aires, Córdoba
and Tucumán, and Cuyo, the village was a convenient place of overnight ("dormida")
for travelers, muleteers and shepherds.
Pergamino was proclaimed a town
("ciudad") on 23 October 1897. The origin of the town's name, lit. "parchment",
is obscure. Pastor Obligado refers to the finding of rolls of parchment and
books filled with parchments. Eliseo Tello ("Toponimia Indígena Bonaerense")
refers to the Araucanian words "Perca-minú", meaning "colored earth". José Soiza
Reille believes that the name was coined by the grocer's sons, who found a
parchment indicating, in a hardly legible way, the location of a treasure made
of gold coins. The text contained indeed moral recommendations but the travelers
called the grocery the Parchment's Grocery for the sake of differentiation from
other shops. In the 1970Z, the "official" etymology of Pergamino claimed that
leather was tanned there for the first time in the region.
http://www.pergamino.gob.ar/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 20 September 2019
The flag of Pergamino is prescribed by Order No. 8,952, issued in 23 October
2018 by the Municipal Council. The flag, designed by Laura Baldomá, was selected
in a public contest prescribed in 2016 by Ordinance No. 8,415.
The flag
is horizontally divided celestial blue-white, a reference to the horizon that
allows "legibility and impacts of the icons" charging the flag in the center: a
cog wheel representing industry and also mimicking the sun; the silhouette of a
town; "the pen that wrote history that provides culture to a village"; and, in
base, a field characterized by the most important crop in the area, maize.; the
whole design symbolizes work, culture and progress. The icons are placed on a
white map of Pergamino with a golden yellow border, recalling the alleged
etymology of Pergamino ("parchment").
http://banderasargentinas.blogspot.com/2018/11/bandera-del-partido-de-pergamino.html
Banderas de Argentina y de todo el mundo, 10 November 2018
Photos
http://www.redderadios.com/pergamino-presento-su-bandera-e-himno-oficial/
http://www.diariopergamino.com.ar/pergamino-tiene-su-bandera-e-himno-oficial/
http://www.pergaminociudad.com.ar/nota.asp?id=71593&t=Pergamino-estreno-himno-y-bandera
https://www.lanoticia1.com/noticia/pergamino-aprobo-su-bandera-e-himno-oficial-110339.html
https://www.grupolaprovincia.com/pergamino/se-presento-el-himno-y-la-bandera-de-pergamino-194232
![[Flag of Laprida]](../images/a/ar-b!lp2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 20 September 2019
Proposal No. 2 was submitted by Taller Protegido (Protected Workshop), as
"Camino a la Felicitad" (Way to Happiness).
The lower, green stripe
represents the fertile and extended plains; it is also a symbol of the
commitment of the inhabitants of Laprida to ecology. The upper, green stripe
represents the wide sky over the place. The horizontal, white line is a
symbol of the stainless horizon. The "guarda pampa" [symmetric design found
on Mapuche clothes] is a symbol of the gaucho and rural traditions. The
vertical, gray and white stripes represents Salamone's Art Deco architecture,
whose verticality massively emerges from the landscape's horizontality.
The sun rays and the wheat spikes represents the protection supplied by the
national sun, abundance and the prosperity of the land.
![[Flag of Laprida]](../images/a/ar-b!lp3.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 20 September 2019
Proposal No. 3
was submitted by Club Atlético Lilán.
The design uses the colors of the
flag of the Province of Buenos Aires, as a symbol of regional belonging.
The linear silhouette represents the municipal building (see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palacio_Municipal_de_Laprida,_la_fuente_y_el_palacio.JPG?uselang=es),
as a reference to Salamone and his works, so significant for the town. The
tower is charged with the symbol of recycling, to highlight an ecological town
committed to the valorization of the natural environment. The water drops
represents the natural environment, the lake and the spa, which are the
center of several sports, culture and tourist activities all the year round.
The drops are shaped like the "islands" placed in the center of the swimming
pool, of the El Paraiso complex (see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h7iwgNCHmU). The sun symbolizes the town's
energy while the sunflower represents production and work.
![[Flag of Laprida]](../images/a/ar-b!lp4.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 20 September 2019
Proposal
No. 4 was submitted by the Sociedad de Fomento de San Jorge (San Jorge
Development Society).
The flag's background uses two main colors: a quiet
celestial blue stripe symbolizes the sky covering a natural green stripe,
representing the immense pampa plain from which Laprida and San Jorge
emerged. The connecting white line highlight the horizon's flat profile.
In the center, the white silhouette of the municipality of Laprida is charged
with the abstract and geometric representation of Francisco Salamone's
fountain (see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palacio_Municipal_de_Laprida,_la_fuente_y_el_palacio.JPG),
which serves as the town's central axis and square, surrounded by three big
figures:
- green arrows, symbolizing commitment for the environment,
recycling, re-use and reduction of contamination, for which the town is
recognized as a regional pioneer;
- a wheat spike, as a symbol of
production and work, grown in the plants since the time of early immigration;
- curved silhouettes of different colors, which dilute the rigid border of
the circular figure. They symbolize each of us, plurality, diversity, and,
above all, respect. The figures harmoniously twirl, completing the central
twirl, as the abstraction of a united community heading to its future.
https://www.ohlaprida.com.ar/2019/09/video-asi-se-presento-oficialmente-la-bandera-de-laprida/
Oh!Laprida, 15 September 2019
https://www.ohlaprida.com.ar/2019/08/video-que-significa-la-bandera-de-laprida-elegida/
Oh!Laprida, 29 August 2019
https://www.ohlaprida.com.ar/2019/08/bandera-de-laprida-estas-son-las-4-finalistas-que-se-pueden-votar/
Oh!Laprida, 16 August 2019
