Encío (Municipality, Castilla y León, Spain)

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• Presentation of Encío
• Symbols of Encío
• Submunicipal entities
  • Moriana
  • Obarenes

See also:

• Spain
• Castilla y León (Autonomous Community, Spain)
• Province of Burgos (Castilla y León, Spain)

Presentation of Encío

The municipality of Encío (45 inhabitants in 2009; 1,876 ha) is made of the villages of Encío (capital), Moriana (28 inh.) and Obarenes (8 inh.).

Ivan Sache, 18 December 2010

Symbols of Encío

The flag and arms of Encío are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 12 November 1998 by the Burgos Provincial Government, signed on 30 November 1998 by the President of the Government and published on 10 December 1998 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 236, p. 2,880 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Castilian flag, with proportions 1:1, divided in the middle, the upper field blue from the hoist and the lower field yellow from the fly. In the middle a red lion rampant holding a pike argent on a field azure.
Coat of arms: Per bend sinister, 1. Azure a bell argent, 2. Or a lion rampant gules holding a pike vert. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The Royal Academy of History stated that the charges featured on the proposed coat of arms are quite unusual in municipal heraldry. This choice has to be justified, the submitted documentation totally lacking explanation. Moreover, it is not acceptable to feature on the flag the field and a charge from the coat of arms in a different arrangement. Accordingly, the proposed symbols are to be modified.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 2000, 197, 2: 343]

Ivan Sache, 17 February 2015

Submunicipal entities

Moriana

Flag of Moriana - Image from the Escudos y Banderas de la Provincia de Burgos website, 24 February 2015

The flag and arms of Moriana are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 10 September 1998 by the Government of the Province of Burgos, signed on 28 September 1998 by the President, and published on 7 October 1998 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 193 (text).
The symbols, which were validated by the Chronicler of Arms of Castilla y León, are described as follows:

Flag: Castilian, in proportions 1:1. Horizontally tierced, from top, gules, white and vert. All over a Moor's head with a headband and earring or.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Argent two Moor's heads with a headband and earring gules, 2. Vert a tree trunk or defoliated over waves argent and azure. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The Moor's (moro) head must make the flag and arms canting.

Ivan Sache, 24 February 2015

Obarenes

Flag of Obarenes - Image from the Escudos y Banderas de la Provincia de Burgos website, 27 February 2015

The Obarenes Mounts are the southernmost part of the Cantabrian Cordillera, dominating the Bureba plain. Their highest point is Pan Perdido (1,237 m). The Natural Park "Montes Obarenes-San Zadornil" was established by Law No. 10, adopted on 14 October 2006 by the Parliament of Castilla y León and published on 20 October 2006 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, Supplement to No. 203, pp. 2-3 (text).
Located in the north-east of the Province of Burgos, the Park covers 33,064 ha, encompassing 20 municipalities and 53 settlements (6,806 inh.).

The flag and arms of Obarenes are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 12 November 1998 by the Government of the Province of Burgos, signed on 30 December 1998 by the President, and published on 10 December 1998 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 236 (text).
The symbols, which were validated by the Chronicler of Arms of Castilla y León, are described as follows:

Flag: Castilian, in proportions 1:1. Grafted at hoist gules and azure. In the middle and starting from the point of the graft, the triangle's point, a green tree and a black boar looking at the fly, the two outlined in white.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Or a cross patty gules, 2. Azure mounts proper in base a tree vert and a boar sable the two fimbriated argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.

The Royal Academy of History pointed out different flaws that prevented the approval of the proposed arms. The composition is totally unbalanced, featuring a complex figure in a space of inadequate shape and much smaller than the space assigned to a huge cross. It is not acceptable to represent a holly oak and an animal on a mountain in a realistic way. The use of a fimbriation, to be banned in any circumstance, can be avoided in different ways.
A flag, when being not only a colour composition but including heraldic charges, should exactly reproduce those of the coat of arms, using the same colours and arrangements. Otherwise, two different heraldic representations will coexist.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 2000, 197, 2: 343]

Ivan Sache, 27 February 2015