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9 September 2011A yellow flag with the municipal arms centred.
Official website at
http://www.paranavai.pr.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 9 September 2011
The municipality of Paranavaí (82,116 inhabitants in 2010; 1,202 sq. km) is
located in northwestern Paraná, on the border with the São Paulo State, 500
km of Curitiba.
Paranavaí, named by Manoel Ribas for the rivers Paraná
and Ivaí, was resettled in 1944 after the failure of the district of Montoya,
established in 1929 by the "Companhia Brasileira de Viação e Comércio" to
develop coffee cultivation. The Paranavaí colony started with 80 houses and
500 inhabitants. The municipality of Paranavaí was established by State Law
No. 790 of 14 December 1951, seceding from Mandaguari, and inaugurated on 14
December 1952.
The coat of arms of Paranavaí was designed by Genésio
Batista. The shield is of rounded-off Portuguese style, "Quartered by a cross
azure, 1. White a handshake of the same, 2. Argent an open book of the same
over a flaming torch proper, 3. Argent a coffee plant fructed gules cantoned
sinister with a gear wheel, 4. Vert a river argent per bend sinister
cantoned by five stars of the same 2 + 3." The shield surmounted by a mural
crown or charged in the middle with an escutcheon argent. The shield
surrounded dexter by a plant of cotton and sinister by a branch of coffee the
two proper. Beneath the shield a scroll gules inscribed "IN FIDE UNITATIS
LABORIS ET SCIENTIAE / CIVITAS INTER PRIMARIAS QUINQUE BRASILIAE".
The
Latin cross symbolizes the Christian faith and its color represents the
Brazilian sky, also featured in the national flag. The first quarter depicts
a handshake on an immaculate background, symbolizing the purity of the
feelings and the high ideals of the inhabitants. The second quarter shows
an open book, the heraldic symbol of knowledge, over a torch, the symbol of
light and progress, the whole representing the schools and spiritual
activities of the inhabitants. The third quarter depicts a coffee plant, the
basic element of the local agriculture, and a gear wheel, representing work
and the merging local industry; the field argent emphasizes the abundance of
crystalline water on the municipal territory. The fourth quarter is green to
recall the coffee plantations and the vegetation. The rivers are the
namesakes of the municipality. The five stars symbolize the five towns with
the best progress index, which were granted an honour diploma by the
Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration; the diploma was presented on
19 October 1956 in Rio de Janeiro by President of the Republic Juscelino
Kubstchek de Oliveira to the Mayor of Paranavaí, José Vaz de Carvalho. The
motto means "Through the faith to unity and work and through science, one of
the five first towns of Brazil".
http://www.prefeituraparanavai.com.br/brasao.php
Ivan Sache, 21
Februry 2012
![[Flag of Paranavaí, PR (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-pr257.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
21 February 2012
Source:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Bandeira_de_paranava%C3%AD.jpg
The image shown on the Wikipedia
source page shows the coat of arms in full colours.
Ivan Sache,
21 Februry 2012
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