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I located a site with all Puerto Rico municipal flags and
CoA's. Go to http://www.lexjuris.com/PUEBLOS
, and choose one by one......
There is also a clickable map of the PR cities at http://www.lexjuris.com/PUEBLOS/histpueblos.html
Dov Gutterman , 29 December 1998
what are the proportions of Puertorican flags ? The National flag undoubtedly is 2:3, and so are
(or seem to be) all images of city flags in the Lexjuris site,
but in one of the official texts, they say "regulation
dimensions" and add (3' x 5')... If anybody knows for sure
that there is a "right" proportion and that this is
3:5, please let us know. (Other texts from the same site imply
that all PR flags have the same proportions...)
Thanh-Tâm Le' , 12 January 1999
In the CIA World Fact Book 1996-97 it is written:
Administrative divisions: none (commonwealth associated with the
US); note - there are 78 municipalities. On the Lexjuris site
there is a clickable map of those 78 pueblos.
In Hammonds World Atlas (1988) the map of Puerto Rico has 8
districts (Aguadilla, Arecibo, Bayamo'n, Guayama, Humacao,
Mayahu"ez, Ponce and San Juan (Vieques and Culebra isls
apparently belong to Humacao district).
Jarig Bakker , 27 January 2000
I have in my archives a map showing the 8 districts , on this
map it looks as if those islands belong to the Carolina District.
Also, if I look at more recent maps, it looks as if some new
municipalities may have been created out of the municipalities
around (San Juan) the Bayamo'n district.(i.e Catano,Coa Baja and
Crujillo)
Franc Van Diest, 27 January 2000
I assume that the division in 78 municipio now is (nearly)
official - from: http://www.cityknowledge.com/north_america_puerto_rico.htm
(a newer edition of the CIA-World Fact Book): Administrative
divisions: none (commonwealth associated with the US);
there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by
the US Government, but there are 78 municipalities (municipios,
singular-municipio) . In this list is Catano; Coa Baja = Toa Baja
? Crujillo = Trujillo Alto?
Jarig Bakker , 27 January 2000
The Lexjuris site and the Pueblos de Puerto Rico site have
many errors in the drawings of their flags, but the descriptions
are apparently correct because they agree with other official
sources. This is obvious by the many versions that has appeared
in FOTW. The most common error is unknowingly presenting the flag
upside down, so inverting the colors in the vertical direction
-we may see this in Barranquitas , Hatillo, and San
Germán-or left-to-right inversion as in Toa
Baja and in some versions of Adjuntas
, that by the way is purple over green. The flag of Humacao consists of three stripes with the
middle one narrower: colors are yellow/red/green; not
yellow/blue/green. The upper stripe of Rincón
is orange, although it looks like red (this flag should have nine
stars and not eleven, as noted by Mr. Le’. The flag of Moca, which is almost identical, is the one
with eleven stars.) The city badges in the middle of the flags of
Ponce and Vieques
are incorrectly depicted. The flag of Orocovis
does not match the true dimensions presented in the flag
description. The flag of Caguas changed
two years ago. You have depicted it correctly, but I have a
better drawing (I live in Caguas.) I am really amazed how the
official site of the government of Puerto Rico has followed this
two identical sites in continuing the same errors. Regarding the
flags presented in FOTW, the colors gold and silver of the city
seals, from which many flags arise, are represented as yellow and
white in the flags, not golden as Mr. Le’ has drawn them
-although they look better the way he did it. (The one exception
is the new flag of Caguas, redrawn
following the true specifications of the Municipal Assembly Law
that created it.) They will not surprise me if they equally
accept his versions. There are so many inconsistencies in the
drawings of the flags as they are in the political situation of
our Island. The flag of Arecibo in FOTW
is the older version of dark blue to the right, and yellow with
the blue diamonds to the left. In the present version all the
flag is yellow with the diamonds in the right field and the city
seal in the left field. The flag of Arroyo
is very badly drawn, being orange over black with the seal in the
middle (not the one depicted). Also, some color tones are not the
correct ones.
Blas Delgado , 6 Febuary 2000
The island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra belong now to the district of Carolina. They previously belonged to Humacao . Every now and then, mainly following every decade census ordered by US Federal Law, our Legislature also makes an electoral redistribution that has a significant impact at the general elections, held every four years.
This is almost always accompanied by a redrawing of the
district’s boundaries, in the spirit of keeping a
proportional representation of members at the governing bodies.
Therefore, some municipalities are periodically jumping from one
district to another, and the district map has to redrawn again.
San Juan, our Capital City, is the only city-district.
Blas Delgado, 4 March 2000
To see Blas Delgado magnificant collection of Puerto Rico municipalities flags click here (Warning - 110 Kb)
Antonio Martins and Jarig Bakker , 27 January 2000
