image by Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002
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image by Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002
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I visited Costa Rica in November 2000. I made only one
observation of a flag I did not know. This was the flag of
Guanacaste province. It is shaped like the Palestinian flag. It
has blue insted of black, but I cannot now remember whether the
top or bottom stripe was blue.
Jan Oskar Engene, 24 January 2001
I receive this flag from three sources so I believe that above
is the correct flag. Guanacaste is a region diferenciate from the
rest of Costa Rica. It was part of Nicaragua during spanish
domain and joined Costa Rica after the independence.
Jaume Olle', 27 January 2001
Guanacaste flag has the blue stripe upwards and the green one
downwards. So it is blue, white and green with a red triangle on
the stem. Thus it is exactly like the Palestinian flag when you
replace black by blue.
Bernard Monot, French Embassy in San Jose, 28 October
2002
Some details about Guanacaste flag were published in Flag
report 15. The flag takes the colors of Costa Rica (red, blue and
white) and adds the green for the province's Pampas. It was
created by mid seventies in a contest held by the provincial
government. Guanacaste is a territory incorporated to Costa Rica
on 25 July 1824 and until then it belonged to Nicaragua, and
therefore it has a differentiated personality. In a letter of
Lic. Marco Tulio Gardela he describes this flag with three
horizontal stripes: blue, white and green, with the red triangle
at the hoist, but the Mayor of Liberia Mr Hugo Zuņiga sent to
the Argentine vexillologist Lic. Mr. Bacchi a photocopy of a
drawing with the stripes inverted, though it could be just that
it was photocopied upside down.
Gardela indicates that the red triangle stand for the heart of
the Guanacastecans, their fondness and happiness, their courage
and manliness shown in many occasions; blue is for the province's
transparent sky; white is a sapphire mantle in the province's
fertility and peace. green is the provincial emblem for the
Guanacaste tree, the pasture, the crops, the work of the peasant
and the cattleman.
Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002
image by Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002
Some variants are in use. At time of the edition of Flag
Report, a vriant flag in use featured a blue, white, green flag
(5:2:5) with triangle only in the narrow white stripe, similar to
the argentinian provincial flag called "bandera del
pico". Later I checked with several people that enforcment
of legislation about flag is not very rigid in Costa Rica, and
frequently variations are issued (this one must be the work of
some unrespectful manufacturer)
Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002
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image by Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002
The provincial arms contain the Guanacaste tree, that is the
national tree. The legend of the ribbon says "de la patria
por nuestra voluntad" (of the fatherland by our will) and
refers to the voluntary union of the district to Costa Rica in
1824, after having belonged to the intendency of Nicaragua.
Jaume Olle', 28 October 2002