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The municipality of Yapeyú (2,126 inhabitants in 2010) is located on river
Uruguay, here the border with Brazil, 400 km south-east of Corrientes.
Yapeyú was established on 4 February 1627 by the Jesuit fathers Pedro Romero and
Nicolás Mastrilli Durán, as a mission named Nuestra Señora de los Santos Reyes
Magos de Yapeyú / Nuestra Señora de los Tres Reyes de Yapeyú. The mission
counted up to 7,000 Guarani inhabitants.
Yapeyú is the birth place of General
José Francisco de San Martín (1778-1850), the Liberator of Argentina and the
Founder of the Republic of Peru (1821).
The flag of Yapeyú is vertically
divided celestial blue-white-ochre yellow with the municipal coat of arms in the
middle.
The flag of Yapeyú was unveiled on 28 June 2011 in the Yellow
Room of the Government Palace. Selected among 112 proposals, the flag refers to
General San Martín, to the Society of Jesus and to the French colonists.
Celestial blue and white are the national colours, bequeathed by Manuel
Belgrano.
Ochre yellow represents the colonial style at the time of the
independence, proudly exemplified by the Buenos Aires Cabildo [the site of the
administration during the colonial period] and the Casa de Tucumán [the site of
the Argentine declaration of independence], and mostly, the name given to the
place by the Guarani since the beginning of their history. In Guarani, "yapeyú"
means "the place near the yellow river".
The coat of arms is divided in
four quarters fimbriated in yellow.
The first quarter features on a white
field the coat of arms of Nuestra Señora de los Santos Reyes de Yapeyú (Our Lady
of the Holy Kings of Yapeyú), the original name given to the place by its Jesuit
founders.
The second quarter is made of the French flag (vertically divided
blue-white-red) with a golden yellow cog wheel and wheat spike, recalling the
contribution of the French colonists to the progress of the town.
The third
quarter shows a carpet with a Tupi-Guarani "guarda" and the silhouette of a
native warrior holding a bow and arrow in the right hand.
The fourth quarter
shows the emblem of the Society of Jesus on a "baroque claret" background.
The shield is surmounted by a golden rising sun with straight and curved rays
and surrounded by laurel boughs, standing on a wooden baroque Guarani sculpture.
Beneath the shield is a scroll horizontally divided celestial
blue-white-celestial blue.
The shape and colours of the shield, as well as
the sun and the laurel boughs, recall the national coat of arms, highlighting
the belonging of Yapeyú to Argentina.
http://www.cadenaderadios.com.ar/nuevo/vernota.asp?id_noticia=22659
http://www.cadenaderadios.com.ar/nuevo/vernota.asp?id_noticia=23060
http://wwwasusalud.blogspot.fr/2011/06/resaltan-san-martin-los-jesuitas-y.html
http://www.sintesiscorrientes.com/notix/noticia/07411_presentaron_oficialmente_la_bandera_de_yapeyu_en_la_casa_de_gobierno-2.htm
Ivan Sache, 7 May 2017
