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image by Daniel Rentería, 18 February 2024The flag of Marbán was adopted for Beni's sesquicentennial in 1992. That
year, on August 12, then departamental prefect Rubén Darío Aponte wrote to the
subprefect of Marbán Alben Rivero Canido, asking for information regarding the
provincial flag. He suggested that the subprefect call a meeting to create a
provincial flag if there was not already one. The prefect created a deadline of
September 23 for creating a flag in order to have adequate time to prepare the
flag for the department's anniversary celebrations on November 18. This included
the raising of provincial flags at the Plaza Mariscal José Ballivián in
Trinidad. Then, on September 21, the subprefect wrote back with information
regarding the flag. Any specific names for the designers are not known, but the
flag was certainly created by provincial officials.
The official
description of the provincial flag is as follows: "The FLAG OF THE PROVINCE OF
MARBÁN consists of two colors and a golden cross, placed in this order: from the
start of the flagpole is a green stripe taking 2/3 of the flag's length,
continued being a white stripe taking 1/3 of the flag's length which bears a
golden cross in vertical position."
Green - Symbolizes natural wealth in
the province. Together, faunal wealth, forestry, livestock, as well as natural
beauty of jungles, plains, rivers, and lagoons from legends make this up.
White - Symbolizes purity and hope of the province's countrymen in their better
future with justice, economic development, and social systems.
Cross -
Symbolizes the entrance of the first Jesuit expeditions in Moxos, which brought
evangelization and the first livestock to the area. Their expeditions paid off
in 1682, when the fathers Pedro de Marbán, Cipriano Barace and Brother José del
Castillo founded the town of Our Lady of Loreto, the first Jesuit Mission in
Moxos, cradle of Beni's livestock and current capital of the Marbán province.
Daniel Rentería, 18 February 2024