Corvo Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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• Presentation of Corvo

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Corvo at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Corvo at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. iimage of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

Corvo, by the way, means "crow", which makes the coat of arms semi-canting.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Mar 2003

Presentation of Corvo

Area: 17 km2. Population: 387 inhabitants.
Francisco Santos, 05 Mar 2003

Apart from the goshawk, another bird that has some meaning in azorean toponymy and vexillology is the Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), in portuguese Corvo-do-mar-preto (meaning "black sea crow") — which gave the name of the smallest and NW-most island and shows in its flag.
António Martins, 14 Sep 1999