Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico

Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave; Veracruz-Llave; Veracruz

Last modified: 2005-03-12 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note: Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave has an official flag for Government usage:

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 09, 2005.
See: Flag of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave

However Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave flies also a flag (unofficial) in white charged with the coat of arms:

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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 09, 2005. See: Coat of arms on white background: unofficial flags

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  Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán

• Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave / Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
• Short-form names: Estado de Veracruz / State of Veracruz; Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave; Veracruz-Llave; Veracruz
• Location: East of Mexico. It limits the Mexican States of Tamaulipas (N), San Luis Potosí (NW), Hidalgo and Puebla (W) Oaxaca (S), Tabasco and Chiapas (SE), and the Gulf of Mexico.
• Area: 72,815 km²
• Municipalities: 207
• Population: 6'700,000 inhabitants
• Capital: Xalapa (Pop.: 195,000)
• Statehood: October 3, 1824
• Arms adopted: November 23, 1954, by decree of October 11, 1954. Though the arms of the Veracruz city had been used since Charles V granted them (1523).

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

Description of the arms:

Main objects: A red cross, a fortress, and the colums with two ribbons read "Plvs Vltra".
The texts: "Vera" over the cross.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 06, 2001

Description in Spanish could be found here:
The official web site of the Veracruz Government
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán

Click here to see the flag

This flag is hoisted in the "Sala de Banderas" (state governor's place-work), along with the National flag, at the Government headquarters in Xalapa, State's capital city. The flag is but the classic white field charged with the State's coat of arms, with the addition to the white field of an all-around red-and-green narrow border.
Besides, the flag is to be exclusive for Government usage. It is flown during governors, federal or other sort of meetings, most of them with the governor present, inside and outside the State's territory.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 10, 2005.

Photo taken on December 2004 in the "Sala de Banderas" (Flags room), at the State's government headquarters in Xalapa, depicting in last plain Veracruz-Llave Governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán (center); behind, on the wall, a picture of former Mexican President Benito Juárez García (above center), the National flag (left), the Veracruz-Llave flag (righ), and the coat of arms of Mexico (above left) and Veracruz-Llave's (above right).
Click to enlarge
Courtesy: Government of the State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
Posted by: Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 10, 2005.

by António Martins

During a last visit of the spanish kings a flag diagonally divided to the upper hoist to lower fly, red at hoist and white at fly, was flown at least in one of the towns of indigenous majority that they visited in Veracruz.
Jaume Ollé, 12 May 1998