Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico

Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza / Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza

Last modified: 2005-09-02 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note: Coahuila de Zaragoza has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat of arms is broadly used:

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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, September 2005. Coat of arms from: Banco de México See: Coat of arms on white background: unofficial flags

• Presentation of Coahuila de Zaragoza
• Coat of arms
• Supposed 1821-1836 Coahuila and Texas State flag

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• Official web page of Coahuila de Zaragoza
  Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán October 9, 2001

• Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza / Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza
• Short-form names: Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza / State of Coahuila de Zaragoza; Coahuila de Zaragoza; Coahuila.
• Location: North of Mexico. It neighbors the States of Chihuahua (W), Durango (SW), Zacatecas (S), Nuevo León (E), and the United States of America (N).
• Area: 149,511 km²
• Municipalities: 38
• Population: 2'295,808 inhabitants
• Capital: Saltillo (Pop.: 510,131 -1995-)
• Statehood: February 5, 1857
• Arms adopted: Unknown date.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

by Banco de México,
September 2005.

"Data de 1942 a iniciativa de Vito Alessio Robles. Bordeado, dividido en cuarteles superiores, uno, a la izquierda, reproduce las armas de los fundadores procedentes de la Nueva Vizcaya. Los símbolos del de la derecha, correspondientes a Extremadura, recuerdan que este nombre llevó la Provincia de la Colonia. El cuartel inferior, cortinado, representa tierras arboladas, el río Monclova y el sol, indicando que en Coahuila nació la Revolución Mexicana."

Banco de México,
Posted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, September 2005.

Christ Pinette, July 21, 2000.

This is the flag of the state of Coahuila y Tejas used in the 1820s and 1830s. It uses the Mexican tricolor and two stars to represent the regions of Coahuila and Tejas. Col. Juan Almonte, aid to Santa Ana, states in his journal entry about the Siege and Battle of the Alamo : "the enemy, as soon as the march of the division was seen, hoisted the tri-colored flag with two stars, designed to represent Coahuila and Texas". The Mexican officer and engineer Carlos Sanchez-Navarro, who participated in the siege of the Alamo in Mar 1836 in his memoirs, La Guerra de Tejas, Memorias de un Soldado, shows in a illustration the flag of Coahuila y Tejas flying over the Alamo.
There is some disagreement over the color of the stars. Different sources have the stars as gold, green, or blue.
Reported by Chris Pinette, July 21, 2000.