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By Daniel Rentería from emblem on the
Loreto government site, 25 August 2024
1, from
Facebook
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The unofficially adopted flag of Loreto can be seen on Facebook. It consists of a white field with the coat of arms centered upon it.
Daniel Rentería, 25 August 2024
By Daniel Rentería from emblem on the
council Facebook page,
25 August 2024
1, from
Facebook
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image from loreto.gob.mx
The coat of arms of Loreto was adopted in 1992 and designed by painter and teacher Héctor Castro Romero. The delegate of Loreto, Estanislao Collins Cota, encouraged the designer, at the time in La Paz, to submit one for the municipal coat of arms contest led by the council, even though he did not consider it at the time. Description of the coat of arms, as described in a municipal regulation from 2004 (published in the official newspaper of the state):
Marked by the architectural elements of its principal missions, Loreto and San Javier, it highlights the details of its characteristic flora and fauna. A door or window in an inverted position can also be seen, which invites people to know and learn its past as well as to participate in the present and be interested in the future.
Crowning the superior portion is a stylized radiant sun which emits vital energy and brilliance over a horizon full of realities, possibilities, and hopes. The bell symbolizes communication and union in all of its settlers in showing up to the call of our history. In the center is the silhouette of the Mission of Nuestra Señora de Loreto representing the style of these historic monuments, on which a cross, sign of the evangelistic action of the Jesuit missionaries, is placed.
The colors and their tones have a significance. The area in a golden tone marks a legend in the form of a motto: "Capital Histórica de las Californias", shaping the historic, cultural, and social wealths of its people; it was the First Capital of the Californias and Head and Mother of Baja and Alta California.
The oxidized tones and grays surrounding the silhouette of the mission, like the ochre, allude to the rock paintings of world heritage and pride of the Lower Californians.
Light blue represents our sky and marks the shell which carries a profile view of the native Californian, decorated with the head of a bighorn sheep. The clam constitutes a characteristic source of nourishment used since the time of the first populators to today.
In the center, with tones of twilight or of sunrise: the date palm, cactus, La Giganta mountain range, the half of the peninsula [state of Baja California Sur], a seagull, its beaches, and desert stand out.
The sea is represented with a configuration stylized in eight bars: four blue and four white, which are complemented by the four portions above resting upon the section (the beach, desert, mountain range, and sky); combined, they signify the twelve months of the year offered attractively to the visitor.
Also standing out is a golden fish, an abundant species which is also representative of sport fishing in the region. Also, the deployed sails of a boat or dorsal fins of a cetacean are shown. Of this detail, rounded up are the focus on tourism and ecology in the region. It is important to highlight the year of its foundation: 1697; and that of the reinstitution of the municipal government: 1992; localized in the very lower parts of the shell.
Sources: Official Newspaper of the State, interview with
the creator of the coat of arms on Youtube
Daniel Rentería, 25 August 2024
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