Bestellen Sie Ihre Fahnen / Flaggen im Flaggen-Shop bei fahnenversand.de

Diese Website beschäftigt sich mit der Wissenschaft der Vexillologie (Flaggenkunde).
Alle auf dieser Website dargebotenen Abbildungen dienen ausschließlich der Informationsvermittlung im Sinne der Flaggenkunde.
Der Hoster dieser Seite distanziert sich ausdrücklich von jedweden hierauf u.U. dargestellten Symbolen verfassungsfeindlicher Organisationen.

^{This is a mirror of a page that is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website.
Anything above the previous line isnt part of the Flags of the World Website and was added by the hoster of this mirror.}

Caminha Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Caminha, Distrito de Viana do Castelo

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 7 Nov 2007

About the Flag
Version without Coat of Arms
Presentation of Caminha

See also:

External links:

Page about Caminha at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
Caminha, at the English Wikipedia
reported by António Martins, 7 Nov 2007

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a white and red background quarterly (town rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin,

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 8 Nov 2007

The arms are Gules three towers Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules and the middle one higher and roofed and bearing a carved coat of arms and a clock, each tower on one of three islets Sable issuant from a base wavy Argent charged with a fess wavy Azure. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CAMINHA".
Meaning:
Recent depictions of the coat of arms show a similar design but quite different from the usual practice in its details; disagreement over this between the local Municipal Goverment and the heraldic authority may have postponed the official adoption of the arms all these decades (comparable towns got their arms back in the 1930ies).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Nov 2007

Flag and arms were adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 2003.05.28, an unusually (very‼) late date.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Nov 2007

Version without Coat of Arms

2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

Presentation of Caminha

Caminha municipality had 17 069 inhabitants in 2001, and it consists of 14 communes, covering 129,66 km². It is part of of Viana do Castelo District, traditional province Minho, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Minho-Lima.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 Nov 2007

back to Municipalities of Portugal click here

^{Anything below the following line isnt part of the Flags of the World Website and was added by the hoster of this mirror.}

Bei fahnenversand.de erhalten Sie eine Vielzahl an günstigen Flaggen, Pins und Aufnähern, zum Beispiel: