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Povoação Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Povoação, Açores

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Sep 2007

About the Flag
Version without Coat of Arms
Presentation of Povoação

See also:

External links:

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

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a quartered of yellow and green field.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Sep 2007

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Sep 2007

Shield Argent, over a base wavy Vert and Argent a caravel Or ornamented, roped, masted and anchored Sable, rigged Argent between two corn cobs Or leaved Vert, in chief a goshawk Proper holding an inescutcheon Azure charged with five plates set in saltire. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "POVOAÇÃO".
António Martins-Tuválkin,

Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série on 16 June 1939
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Sep 2007

Version without Coat of Arms

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

Presentation of Povoação

Povoação municipality had 6726 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 6 communes covering 110,30 km², taking up the southeastern part of St. Michael Island (São Miguel). It is part of Azores Region (also a NUTS II and traditional province), former Ponta Delgada District. "Povoação" means simply "settlement".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Sep 2007

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