by Carlos Thompson, 28 August 2004
Last modified: 2004-10-23 by dov gutterman
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by Carlos Thompson, 28 August 2004
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The official site show the flag
as 1:2.
From <www.yarumal.gov.co>:
"La Bandera - Fue diseñada por don José Giraldo Bernal y
aprobada junto con el himno por el Acuerdo 10 del 22 de febrero
de 1983. Simboliza poder y esperanza. Consta de dos franjas
horizontales de 80 centímetros de ancho y 3.5 metros de largo:
la superior, de color blanco, que simboliza grandeza y pureza; la
inferior de color verde esmeralda, que representa la esperanza. A
su izquierda se superpone un campo de color amarillo oro, de
forma triangular, cuya base se extiende desde los ángulos
superior e inferior y su vértice se dirige hacia el centro de la
bandera, justo en el punto donde se unen los colores blanco y
verde; este campo representa la riqueza del subsuelo yarumalita.
En el ve'rtice del campo triangular aparece una estrella dorada
de cinco puntas para representar título de "Estrella del
Norte" con el cual se conoce nuestro municipio."
Dov Gutterman, 11 August 2002
According to the description the star should be golden.
Falko Schmidt, 13 August 2002
Yarumal was founded in 1787 as San Luis de Gongora. Municipal
status was granted in 1821. The current name of Yarumal comes
from a local plant belonging to the Moraceae family, known in
botanical Latin as Cecropia peltata L. The muncipality (3
parishes and 20 villages) has an area of 724 sq. km, 35,315
inhabitants, and its average elevation is 2,265 m a.s.l. (for the
sake of comparison, the highest municipality in Europe is
Saint-Véran, in the French Alps, with an elevation of 2,040 m
a.s.l.).
The flag was designed by don José Giraldo Bernal and approved
along with the municipal anthem by Decree #010 on 22 February
1983. The flag represents power and hope. It is made of two
horizontal stripes of 80 cm x 3.5 m (which I correct as 80 cm x
3.2 m, the image on the website showing clearly a 1:2 flag). The
upper white stripe represents greatness and purity. The lower
emerald green stripe represents hope. The yellow triangle
represents the wealth of the Yarumal underground. The golden star
is the "Estrella del Norte" (Northern Star), the
nickname of the municpality.
The flag shown on the website is different from the Reported Wrong Flags. The first
flag we show has wrong proportion and a star too big, slightly
miscoloured and slightly misplaced, whereas the second is
definitively erroneous, with a misproportioned triangle and a
misplaced and miscoloured star.
Ivan Sache, 14 August 2002
Acording to the site on Yarumal, Antioquia, the triangle
should reach the center of the flag. About the
dimensions, I made it as 16:35 (472×216) rather than 1:2 (it
gives 1:21875).
Carlos Thompson, 28 August 2004
1) 
by Pascal Gross, 31 October 2000
2) 
by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 July 2002
The image at http://www.gobant.gov.co/gobierno/yarcarol.htm#YARUMAL
is 1:2 and the star is red.
Dirk Schonberger, 13 July 2002
antya.jpg)
from www.yarumal.gov.co,
located by Dov Gutterman, 11 August 2002
