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SC (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-sc-114.gif)
image by Dirk Schönberger,
20 June 2012
Source: http://www.indaial.sc.gov.br/prefeitura/cidade.php?menu=bandeira_municipal and http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indaial
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image by Dirk Schönberger,
20 June 2012
Source:
http://www.indaial.sc.gov.br/prefeitura/cidade.php?menu=bandeira_municipal
and http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indaial
The municipality of Indaial (69,425 inhabitants in 2019; 43,053 ha) is
located 160 km north-west of Florianópolis.
Indaial was settled during
the Paraguayan War by Brazilian colonists coming from Armação, Itajaí, Camboriú
and Porto Belo, who cleared the rainforest and established the first crops on
the left bank of river Itajaí-Açu. Hermann Blumenau planned to transform Carijós
into an organized town that would be the capital of the Blumenau colony. Carijós,
however, because of its complex topography, was soon superseded by Indaiai, a
settlement established in a more suitable environment. The district of Indaial
was established by Provincial Law No. 1,416 promulgated on 4 September 1886.
Established by State Law No. 92 promulgated on 4 October 1893, the municipality
of Indaial was soon downgraded to a district by State Decree No. 189 issued on
29 May 1894.
The municipality of Indaial was re-established by State Decree
No. 526 issued on 28 February 1934 and inaugurated on 21 March 1934.
Ivan Sache, 3 November 2021
A square flag, gyronny red and white, with the municipal arms in the centre. The shield on the flag may or may not have a red border (an example without the border is at http://www.explorevale.com.br/valeeuropeu/indaial/historia.htm). The "full" coat of arms, which I have not found on the flag, has above an mural crown and below a red scroll with the word "INDAIAL" in white.
Official website at
http://www.indaial.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 20 June 2012
The flag of Indaial is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 670 promulgated on 21
February 1972.
Article 1.
The municipal flag shall have the following
heraldic description: Gyronny gules and white, charged in the center with the
coat of arms of the municipality outlined in yellow.
Article 2.
The
municipal flag, in compliance with the best Luso-Brazilian tradition, is based
on the following rationale:
I - Gyronny, that is, the flag's quadrilateral
field is divided in eight equal parts shaped like right-angled triangles, each
of them called a gyron, by four rectilinear lines crossing each other in the
center, two of them starting from the quadrilateral's angles and the two other
vertical and horizontal, equidistant from the borders.
II - Gules and white,
considering that the colors of an heraldic flag shall be derived from the arms
it features and that the basic colors of the municipal arms are gules (red, here
in a light red shade), gold and silver, the latter metal being generally
substituted on flags by white, which matches it on the heraldic chromatic scale.
The upper gyron, next to the hoist, shall be gules, the second white and so on.
III - Charged in the center, concealing the intersection of the lines that form
the gyronny
IV - The coat of arms of the municipality, that is, the municipal
arms, prescribed by Law No. 664 promulgated on 2 February 1972, placed in the
flag's center, without any of its outer ornaments, therefore reduced to the
shield proper, described in heraldic terms as follows: "Portuguese shield. Gules
four arrows argent in saltire orled by 34 bezants". In the coat of arms, argent
shall be substituted by white and gold by yellow.
V - Outlined in yellow
[...]
Article 3.
The features of the flag shall obey the following
rules:
I - The flag's width shall be 20 units.
II - The flag's length
shall be 38 units.
III - The distance of the coat of arms, outline excluded,
from the flag's upper edge shall be 6 units.
IV - The field of the shield, in
compliance with the usual shape known as Portuguese or Iberian, shall be
constituted of a quadrilateral of 7 units in width and 5 units in length,
completed in base by a semi-circle of 3.5 units in radius.
V - The four
arrows shall be inscribed in an imaginary lozenge of 4.5 units in side. The
distance of the lozenge's center to the shield's upper border shall be 4 units
and 3.5 units to the flanks.
VI - Each arrow shall be inscribed in an
imaginary rectangle of 0.8 unit in height and 4.5 units in length. The width of
an arrow shall be 0.2 unit. The arrowhead shall be inscribed in an imaginary
square of 0.8 unit in side. The flights shall be of 0.5 unit in width and 0.2
unit in length.
VII - The distance between each pair of arrows shall be 1.5
unit.
VIII - The bezants shall be of 0.5 unit in diameter and their centers
shall be distant of 0.75 unit from the shield's border. The 34 bezants shall be
arranged as follows: nine on the upper border, 11 forming a semi-circle in base,
and seven on each flank.
IX - The shield's outline, in yellow, shall have a
width of 0.1 unit.
X - The two sides of the flag shall be exactly identical.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/i/indaial/lei-ordinaria/1972/67/670/lei-ordinaria-n-670-1972-institue-a-bandeira-municipal
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms of Indaial is prescribed by
Municipal Law No. 664 promulgated on 2 February 1972.
Article 1.
The
arms of the municipality, compliant with the appended model and description,
shall be blazoned as follows: "Portuguese shield; gules four arrows argent in
saltire orled by 34 bezants or. The shield surmounted by a mural crown filled
gules with four towers port and windows gules. Motto: 'Indaial' argent on a
scroll gules".
The Appendix to the Law includes a detailed description of
the heraldic origin of arrows and bezants, orles and outer ornaments, quoting
several European examples, then a detailed account of the history of the town
(see above), and finally, the explanation of the arms, as follows.
The arrows
recall the first population nucleus, Carijós, named for a native world. This was
the name assigned to the native inhabitants of the southern coastal area of
Brazil, which was subsequently assigned, by analogy, to the Caboclo and Luso-Brazilian
colonists of the region. The arrows also recall that the town was originally
designed according to a fully delimited urban plan.
The golden bezants, used
here in a new and specific manner, represent the small fruits of the indaiá /
andaiá palm tree (Attalea exigua Drude), the town's namesake due to its
relative abundance in the area. Placed on the shield's border, they also delimit
the municipal territory. The number of bezants, 34, recalls that the
municipality of Indaial was established in 1934.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/i/indaial/lei-ordinaria/1972/66/664/lei-ordinaria-n-664-1972-institui-as-armas-do-municipio-de-indaial
Leis Municipais database
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeIndaial/photos/4514574871920882
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeIndaial/photos/4457473934297643
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeIndaial/photos/2791691887542531
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeIndaial/photos/2791691887542531
Ivan Sache, 3 November 2021
