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image by António
Martins-Tuválkin, 18 August 2007
Based on:
http://www.quatroirmaos.rs.gov.br/portal1/municipio/hino_brasao.asp?iIdMun=100143490
(no longer available)
The flag is vertically divided 2:3, with the hoist side panel dark blue and
the fly side panel filled with 11 horizontal stripes, orange and white, the
former slightly thicker. Over all a white vertically elongated ellipse with the
full coat of arms and at the upper hoist a vertical row of four orange
five-pointed stars.
The coat of arms is an oginal shield with four orange
five-pointed stars on a blue chief, which blends into a an orange background.
This is the sky for a farming scene, complete with cow, fence and tractor. Mural
crown with three visible towers, shield flanked by an ear of wheat at dexter and
maize at sinister, and scroll orange scroll with motto "Quatro Irmãos - 1996" in
blue san serif capitals.
"Quatro irmãos" means "four brothers" and
probably the four stars stand for them. According to
http://www.quatroirmaos.rs.gov.br/portal1/municipio/historia.asp?iIdMun=100143490,
these were four brothers of the Santos Pacheco family, who owned a lot of local
estate in 1909. Their land was brought in 1909 by the Jewish Colonization
Association and the first colonizers arrived in 1911, coming from Argentina, and
later from Bessarabia and other parts of Russia. The community thrived and
attracted other immigrants till after WWII, when the local araucaria sawmills
closed and the economy collapsed. Quatro Irmãos become an almost abandoned town
but was revived in the late 1990ies. More at
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatro_Irm%C3%A3os.
António
Martins-Tuválkin, 18 August 2007
The flag of Quatro Irmãos is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 25 promulgated
on 20 March 2001.
Article 1.
The flag of the municipality of Quatro
Irmãos is rectangular, in dimensions 90 cm in width on 1.30 m in length. The
left half, blue with four golden stars in upper canton, representing the
pioneers who colonized the municipality; the right half, white and golden
horizontal stripes, charged in the center with a circumference featuring the
coat of arms of the municipality of Quatro Irmãos.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/q/quatro-irmaos/lei-ordinaria/2001/3/25/lei-ordinaria-n-25-2001-aprova-bandeira-do-municipio-de-quatro-irmaos
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms of Quatro Irmãos is
prescribed by Municipal Law No. 24 promulgated on 20 March 2001.
Article
1.
The coat of arms of the municipality of Quatro Irmãos has the following
characteristics.
- A shield composed of a quadrilateral with rounded-off
lower angles.
- A three-towered crown symbolizing territorial sovereignty.
- In the quadrilateral's base four stars symbolizing the pioneers who colonized
the municipality.
- The blue sky, symbolizing pure air, mixed with the
golden sun, a symbol of prosperity.
- A Brazilian pine, representing the
native tree as the symbol of the first industry and, most of all, the need to
preserve the environment.
- A bovine symbolizing cattle-breeding.
- A
circle symbolizing property rights.
- Green symbolizing life, made possible
by plants and water.
- A tractor and a man, symbolizing man working to
transform rough stuff into food.
- The Torah, as the Hebraic symbol of man's
duties to God represented here, whatever the religion.
- The name
representing municipal unity and date of foundation.
- Surrounding the
quadrilateral, wheat and maize, as symbols of agriculture.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/q/quatro-irmaos/lei-ordinaria/2001/3/24/lei-ordinaria-n-24-2001-aprova-brasao-do-municipio-de-quatro-irmaos
Leis Municipais database
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradequatroirmaos/photos/a.1589943907904161/2525014744397068/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradequatroirmaos/photos/a.1598182157080336/2627688094129732/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 2 August 2020