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El Hito (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Presentation of El Hito
Symbols of El Hito

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Presentation of El Hito

The municipality of El Hito (142 inhabitants in 2018; 4,122 ha) is located 70 km south-west of Cuenca.

Ivan Sache, 24 June 2019

Symbols of El Hito

The flag of El Hito is prescribed by an Order issued on 2 September 1996 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 20 September 1996 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 42, p. 4,617 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, horizontally divided in three parts of width 9/12, 1/12 and 2/12, the upper part, purple, the intermediate, white, and the lower, blue, with a white column on the purple stripe.

The coat of arms of El Hito is prescribed by an Order issued on 2 September 1996 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 20 September 1996 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 42, p. 4,617 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Argent a cross-sword of the knights of the Order of Saint James surrounded by two scallops of the same, 2. Purpure a column argent. Grafted in base waves argent and azure. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.

The Royal Academy of History accepted the proposed symbols.
The arms recall that El Hito belonged to the Order of Saint John, the archeological excavations made on the municipal territory, and its lakes.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 194:2, 391. 1997]

Lake El Hito, equally shared by the municipalities of El Hito and Montalbo, is a wet area stretching over 291 ha; water height, usually 10-15 cm, hardly reached 1 m after rainy events.
The lake is endorrheic, that is, only filled by rain water. Annual rain never exceeds 400 mm, with a long dry period; accordingly, the lake might dry out in summertime, while salty crusts are formed at its surface. Lake El Hito is a main shelter for the avifauna, especially cranes during their winter migration. The lake harbors other, less visible, rare organisms, such as the halophyt (salt-thriving) herb Limonium soboliferum Erben, which is endemic to Lake El Hito (found nowhere else), and Brachinecta orientalis G.O. Sars, a brachiopod crustacean.
[Montalbo municipal website]

Ivan Sache, 24 June 2019

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