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The flag of the city of Barranquilla
was previously reported as the department flag. According to <www.bundenet.com>,
the department flag is W-R-W
triband. The presidency official site <www.presidencia.gov.co>
shows the same WRW triband as Atlantico Department flag.
Dov Gutterman , 14 May 2000 and 22 May 2000
I live in Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia. The
correct Atlantico flag is the white-red-white
horizontal-striped one, and it was officialy adopted in 1989,
before then, there was no departmental flag. The green,
red-yellow fringed, five-point star flag, is the flag of the city
of Barranquilla. The mistake was
because Atlántico flag is relatively recent (1989) and there's
no enough information about it, so the Barranquilla flag is shown
as the Atlántico flag frequently, but the real and correct flag
is the white-red-white one.
Carlos A. Leiva, 18 July 2000
According the official website <www.gobatl.gov.co>,
the departmental flag was adopted by decree 000589 of 27 November
1989. The flag is indeed the W-R-W triband. The decree (in
Spanish) at that page.
Dov Gutterman, 19 November 2000
From the site of the Atlantico Governorship, the ratio of the
flag is 3:5. Translation: The flag adopted by the present decree,
will have the following characteristics: a rectangular shape, in
the proportion of three (3) units height by five (5) units
length. The flag will be divided in three longitudinal
strips of equal height, whose colors will be white, for the two
outer strips, and red for the mid strip. This is from Decree No
589 of 27th November 1989 by the Atlantico Governorship.
Carlos Thompson, 11 August 2004
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by Luis Carrillo, 7 July 2002
The Atlantico Governorship site <www.gobatl.gov.co>
also reports a Coat of Arms,
which is different than the one above. Having seen
diferent versions of the Coat of Arms of both Barranquilla (Capital of Atlantico) and
Atlantico, it seems to me that they are different artistic
representations of one Coat of Arms; with the one at the
Governorship's site as the current official one
for the department. While the Coat of Arms in these two
official sites are different, I have found a continuum of Coat of
Arms at different sites that mix the elements, which show a
similar origin.
Carlos Thompson, 11 August 2004
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