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Picote (Picuote) Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Picote, Concelho de Mirando do Douro (Cunceilho de Miranda de L Douro), Distrito de Bra

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Feb 2016

Introduction of Picote
About the flag
Presentation of Picote

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Introduction of Picote

Like all toponyms in the municipality, this commune has two names: Picote in Portuguese and Picuote in Mirandese (the local syncretic Asturian-Leonese dialect complex, co-official language of Portugal and given a standard orthography); each is the translation of the other and both mean a kind of heavy woollen cloth. The names in brackets are Mirandese, the local language.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Feb 2016

About the Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: communal website, the heraldry page of the official website, with complete info about the flag and banner, too
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Feb 2016

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Feb 2016

Shield Argent, issuant from a base wavy Argent charged with a fess wavy Azure a mound vert, in chief a verraco (editorial note: granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals; kms) Purpure between two ears of rye Vert. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "PICOTE". In spite of the bilingual status (enshrined in the Constitution of 1999), the scroll of the coat of arms is not bilingual, according to the law (signed in 2005).
Meaning:
Thie woollen cloth is not featured on the arms, not the namesake dam, one of the largest hydroelectric power plant reservoirs in Portugal, and the first built by the Portuguese government of the river Douro, in 1958 - The arms feature instead tokens of local geography, agriculture, and archaeology (verraco).
Sources: this webpage and communal website, the heraldry page of the official website, with complete info about the flag and banner, too
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Feb 2016

Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 6 July 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Feb 2016

Presentation of Picote

Picote (Picuote) Commune is one of the 13 communes of the Mirando do Douro Municipality; it had 301 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 20.0 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Feb 2016

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