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Cape Verde is divided in 22 municipalities.
António Martins, 05 Apr 2006
Two groups of islands compose the country: Barlavento (Windward)
and Sotavento (Leeward).
Jorge Candeias, 29 Nov 2005
Those groups are composed of respectively 6 and 4 islands.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2016
Island group  |
Island |
Municipality  |
Commune  | B: Barlavento ⤵ | 1: Santo Antão | 11: Ribeira Grande |
111: Nossa Senhora do Rosário 112: Nossa Senhora do Livramento 113: Santo Crucifixo 114: São Pedro Apóstolo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12: Paul | 121: Santo António das Pombas | ||
| 13: Porto Novo |
131: São João Baptista 132: Santo André | ||
| 2: São Vicente | 21: São Vicente | 211: Nossa Senhora da Luz | |
| Santa Luzia | |||
| 3: São Nicolau | 31: Ribeira Brava
 |
311: Nossa Senhora da Lapa 312: Nossa Senhora do Rosário | |
| 32: Tarrafal de São Nicolau | 321: São Francisco de Assis | ||
| 4: Sal | 41: Sal | 411: Nossa Senhora das Dores | |
| 5: Boa Vista | 51: Boa Vista
|
511: São João Baptista 512: Santa Isabel | |
| Island group |
Island |
Municipality |
Commune | S: Sotavento ⤶ | 6: Maio | 61: Maio
| 611: Nossa Senhora da Luz |
| 7: Santiago | 71: Tarrafal | 711: Santo Amaro Abade | |
| 72: Santa Catarina | 721: Santa Catarina | ||
| 73: Santa Cruz
| 731: Santiago Maior | ||
| 74: Praia | 741: Nossa Senhora da Graça | ||
| 75: São Domingos
|
751: Nossa Senhora da Luz 752: São Nicolau Tolentino | ||
| 76: São Miguel | 761: São Miguel Arcanjo | ||
| 77: São Salvador do Mundo
| 771: São Salvador do Mundo | ||
| 78: São Lourenço dos Órgãos
| 781: São Lourenço dos Órgãos | ||
| 79: Ribeira Grande de Santiago
|
791: Santíssimo Nome de Jesus 792: São João Baptista | ||
| 8: Fogo | 81: Mosteiros | 811: Nossa Senhora da Ajuda | |
| 82: São Filipe |
821: São Lourenço 821: Nossa Senhora da Conceição | ||
| 83: Santa Catarina do Fogo
| 831: Santa Catarina | ||
| 9: Brava | 91: Brava
|
911: São João Baptista 912: Nossa Senhora do Monte | |
| Island group |
Island |
Municipality |
Commune |
The relationship between the 10 islands and the 22 municipalities varies:
There were island flags in Cabo Verde, in the late 19th
century: Not tokens of local government of any sort, but rather
signal flags, used ashore in post offices.
António Martins, 06 July 2017
This
photo shows a national teacher’s meeting is held in the
Mosteiros town hall, in a room decorated with
small hanging triangular flags in different colors and each showing a
(different) logo. Could these be the flags of the 22
municipalities Cape Verde is divided in?
António Martins, 05 April 2006
The online
coverage of the 2016 municipal elections
by the national television R.T.C. showed
municipal emblems for all municipalities except
Brava, Paul,
Ribeira Grande de Santo Antão, and
Santa Cruz — which are symbolized by the
national emblem.
António Martins, 21 December 2016
Concerning the emblems of municipal flags, a few
more are known to us than flags they are used on, for the same reasons of
(paradoxically) less visibility of the latter. Likewise, we do know that
flags for all of them exist, as the legal frame is the
same for both kinds of symbols.
António Martins, 31 March 2016
So far have only accidental evidence of most of these emblems and
some of the flags: They do exist and are in use, but we still need the
general and specific laws and regulations.
António Martins, 08 July 2017
The article [c9v07] (about
one specific municipal flag) refers to the
national law that governs subnational emblems,
«Decreto-Regulamentar nº 8/2000, de 28 de Agosto,
publicado no B.O. nº 25-26 I Série», and quotes
it obliquely concerning some interesting aspects, such as the need for the
emblem to express simply, and yet powerfully, the uniqueness of each
municipality within its island and the whole of the country. It
specifies that, since it’s going to be used on a flag, such
emblem should be adequately readable at a distance of at least 30 m,
condemning an excessive «proliferation of small-sized graphic
elements »that« would unavoidably weaken the aesthetic
composition and the strength of expression sought from such a
symbol». It is not clear, however, how much these guidelines come
from this general law on local symbols, or from the conditions previously
set by one specific municipality concerning the design of its own emblem,
or from the designer’s own thought.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2016
Cape Verde seems to be following basically
Portuguese practice in municipal flags with a few
changes: a style of municipal emblem that sets it apart from European
heraldry (and good for them, because the emblems they are using are quite
attractive, unlike most Portuguese coats of arms), and the possibility of
having different backgrounds in the banner and the
flag.
Jorge Candeias, 10 March 2007
Some municipal flags in Cabo Verde come in two forms (in what seems to
be one more cumbersome burden from Portuguese
colonialism), differently designed: One design for a regular flag, used
for hoisting, where the municipal emblem shows on a plain color
background, and another for rigid display flags
(table flaglets, wall pennants, parade guidons), which has instead a
quartered background.
António Martins, 31 March 2016
All emblems known to us share some features: They are all round,
depicting non heraldic elements inside a disc, have a scroll with the
name of the municipality in varying colors below the disc, are surrounded
on the upper part of the disc by 10 yellow five-pointed upright regular
stars, and, on a apical gap of the said said arc of stars, include a chain
with a varying number of links. The links and
the stars (standing for the islands) are
also present in the national emblem.
António Martins, 07 September 2009
Common elements seem to be:
I’m pretty sure that four rings means city status for the
municipal seat — an elegant transposition of the Portuguese system
of visible towers in a mural crown.
António Martins, 25 April 2017
This is a design for rigid display flags (table flaglets, wall pennants,
parade guidons), which has a quartered background in contrasting colors,
one of them shared with the hoisting flag.
António Martins, 31 March 2016
The flag shape estandarte
is used in small rigid hanging form. It is
known to be shaped as a square or as an
irregular pentagon, with one (vertical) symmetry axis, proportioned as a
square with an right triangle extending from the bottom
(edge line coordinates: (1;1), (1;3), (3;3), (4;2) and (3;1), closed).
This seems to be the shape of Capeverdean municipal banners,
differing from the respective flags
(bandeiras) also by that the
former have quartered backgrounds and the latter have them plain.
António Martins, 17 September 2007 and 07 September 2009
Caboverdean municipal flag backgrounds are known to be plain, quartered,
horizontal bicolor, gyronny, and rayonny.
António Martins, 25 Apr 2017
| W | B | R | Y | M | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (plain) | 12
74
76 |
82 |
13 |
72 |
|
| W | 11
32
41 |
||||
| B | 21
71 |
||||
| V | 81 |
On
these
three
online
photos of the Mosteiros town hall two
of the three flag poles erected are bare, only the national flag being
hoisted.
António Martins, 05 April 2006
According to
the
National T.V., the first ever use of both the national
flag and the T.S.N. municipal flag on an
official building was in 2015.02.09 (see photo),
at the newly unveiled municipal office in Praia Branca town.
António Martins, 21 December 2016
Some, not all, Portuguese overseas
municipalities received arms and flag in the period 1940-1974, after
all metropolitan municipalities got one.
António Martins, 15 January 2003
Existed a colonial-era municipal flag of
Praia, Cape Verde.
Jens Pattke, 25 March 2016
