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The departamental flags are all unofficial. [Officially] the
departaments only have a coat of arms.
Rodolfo Tizzi, 10 Jul 2002
All the departamental flags of Uruguay (departments that have adopted
one, of course) and other less known Uruguayan flags and shields will be
published in a next issue of my Bulletin (probably 1 July 1999; not
available in Internet)
Jaume Ollé, 26 Nov 1998
Uruguay is divided in 19 "departamentos", not "intendencias".
"Intendencia" is the name of the departament government.
Rodolfo Tizzi, 10 Jul 2002
The original [national] flag was a white field, with
nine horizontal azure blue stripes,
with El sol de Mayo (the Sun
of May) in a white canton. Later the number of stripes was reduced
by law to five white and four blue,
for each of the nine
political divisions originally forming the republic. Today there
are nineteen of these divisions called departamentos.
Dov Gutterman, 13 May 2000, quoting from
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7187/proudnation.htm