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5 November 2021 
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image by Ivan Sache,
5 November 2021
The municipality of Palhoça (175,272 inhabitants in 2020, therefore Santa
Catarina's 10th most populated municipality; 39,513 ha) is located 20 km
south-west of Florianópolis. The municipality is composed of the districts of
Palhoça (seat) and Enseada de Brito.
Palhoça was established on 31 July
1793 by Caetano Silveira de Matos, who was commissioned by Governor João Alberto
de Miranda Ribeiro to build huts ("palhoças") to store flour on the road to
Lages.
The municipality of Palhoças was established on 24 April 1894,
separating from São José, and inaugurated on 23 May 1894, and elevated the seat
of a county on 10 January 1905.
https://palhoca.atende.net/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 5 November 2021
The flag of Palhoça are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 7 promulgated on 6
April 1973.
Article 2.
The flag shall be rectangular with green, red
and white colors, in dimensions 128 cm, charged in the center in horizontal
dimension with the coat of arms prescribed by Law No. 6 promulgated on 6 April
1973.
Article 3.
It shall be quartered by lozenges [triangles] running
from the corners to the shield. The right lozenge shall be green and the left
red, which are the basic colors of the flag of Santa Catarina state, forming two
wings representing the growth of Palhoça associated with the development of the
state. The lozenges placed above and beneath the coat of arms are white,
synthesizing people's friendship and purity, as well as prosperity and work that
make their greatness. In the center, the coat of arms represents the municipal
government and symbolizes the town as seat of the municipality.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/p/palhoca/lei-ordinaria/1973/1/7/lei-ordinaria-n-7-1973-institui-a-bandeira-oficial-para-o-municipio
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms of Palhoça is prescribed by
Municipal Law No. 6 promulgated on 6 April 1973.
Article 1.
The coat
of arms of the municipality of Palhoça was designed by Dr. Juarez Nahas, Public
Prosecutor.
I - It consists in a classical Portuguese shield, symbolizing the
primitive ethnical filiation, surmounted by an ochre mason tower, representing
administrative unity and security offered by the municipal government, with its
traditional clock indicating the beginning of work hours.
II - The shield is
divided into four quarters, red and gray in the upper part, light blue and blue
in the lower part, divided by a cross with a yellow vertical arm and a green
horizontal arm, recalling people's Christian faith associated with patriotism,
as the basic colors of the national flag, inscribed in the vertical part with
the motto "ESTUDO + TRABALHO = PROGRESSO" (Study + Work = Progress), which means
that study and fruitful work can generate development, progress, and community's
increase.
III - The first quarter, on the right, represents industry in quick
development, especially ceramic and construction materials, on a red background.
IV - The second quarter, on the left, represents basic activities in a rural
zone, with colonist's typical and original tools surmounted by main crops, which
are tomatoes, potatoes, and maize proper, on a gray background.
V - The third
quarter, on the right, represents industry without chimneys, that is, tourism,
which thrives day after day with the exploration of beautiful beaches in various
places of the Palhoça seashore. The sea is blue and the beaches orange.
VI -
The fourth quarter, on the left, is a tribute to liberty. A white bird with
spread wings is freely flying in a blue sky, holding a book in the beak, which
symbolizes liberty as a responsibility obtained by study and culture that saves
man from slavery and analphabetism [...] It represents also the democratic
spirit of people who cherish liberty. "The state, as an organized social force,
realizes itself as the warrant of everyone's liberty. There is no law without
liberty nor is there liberty without law, because law is liberty's proper
realization; human liberty relies on peace, concord, security, order, justice
certainty, that is, in the full accomplishment of law." The bird is white on a
blue background, so is the book, with black letters "a", "b", and "c".
VII -
On a red scroll (the color of dedication and enthusiasm for the homeland), the
name of the municipality and years "1894" and "1906" in black; the first year,
for the foundation, the second, for the creation of the county.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/p/palhoca/lei-ordinaria/1973/1/6/lei-ordinaria-n-6-1973-institui-brasao-para-o-municipio
Leis Municipais database
Ivan Sache, 5 November 2021
![[Flag of Palhoça,
SC (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-sc-181a.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
5 November 2021
The description of the flag "the right lozenge shall be green and the left
red" appears to be submitted to interpretation - usually right, or heraldic
right, that is, usual left, since the flag is seen in official use either with
the green or the red triangle at hoist (saying "at hoist" instead of "right /
left" would have made the description unambiguous).
Photos
Green at hoist
https://www.correiosc.com.br/assinado-financiamento-para-nova-sede-administrativa-palhoca/
https://portalpalhoca.com.br/noticias/esporte/futsal-sub-15-de-palhoca-estreia-no-campeonato-catarinense
https://portalpalhoca.com.br/noticias/comunidade/servidores-paralisam-atividades-e-protestam-em-frente-a-prefeitura-em-palhoca
Red at hoist
https://portalpalhoca.com.br/noticias/saude/prefeitura-de-palhoca-decreta-situacao-de-emergencia
https://apostilasconcursosbr.com/apostila-concurso-prefeitura-de-palhoca-sc-2019/
http://www.tudosobrefloripa.com.br/index.php/desc_noticias/prefeitura_de_palhoca_esta_com_inscricoes_abertas_para_processo_seletivo
https://fr.foursquare.com/v/câmara-municipal-de-vereadores-de-palhoça/4dae24ce0cb65a8b0d156e90?openPhotoId=52a8abb011d222093c4c8fca
Ivan Sache, 5 November 2021
