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image by Ivan Sache, 11
July 2020
The municipality of Áurea (3,725 inhabitants in 2016; 15,829 ha) is located
400 km north of Porto Alegre.
Áurea was established, as Rio Marcelino, in
1908 by Polish colonists. The place was subsequently renamed to Treze de Maio
(1918) and Princesa Isabel (1938), and eventually, Áurea (1944). The three names
refer to the abolishment of slavery in Brazil by Imperial Law No. 3,353, better
known as Golden Law (Lei Áurea), promulgated on 13 May 1888 by Princess Isabel
"the Redemptress". Áurea also refers to the second wave of Polish immigration
organized in 1944 from Złotoryja (lit., Gold Mountain), a town in Lower Silesia
once famous for its gold mines, and to the golden halo of the Black Madonna of
Częstochowa. Some 90% of the town's population is of Polish origin.
https://aurea.rs.gov.br - Municipal
website
Ivan Sache, 11 July 2020
The flag and arms of Áurea are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 79 promulgated
on 5 March 1990.
Article 2.
The municipal flag shall have the
following colors: green, yellow, blue and white.
Article 3.
The
municipal coat of arms of Áurea, based on a Portuguese shape and historical
data, originates in heraldry used in most Brazilian municipal coat of arms.
Article 4.
The colors are technically compliant with the rules of
codification of heraldry: yellow, or; azure, blue; argent, silver; vert, green;
gules, red; sable, black. They have the following symbolic meaning:
Or
represents force and richness.
Argent represents history and nobleness.
Gules represents justice, discipline and honor.
Azure represents beauty and
subtlety;
Vert represents the natural environment.
Sable represents
prudence.
Article 5.
The coat of arms, in comprehensive style,
features dexter on a azure a sun or, superimposed between its rays an heraldic
cross argent, a mate straw and a fleur-de-lis, in fess a handshake argent. The
sinister field features a cog wheel or on a field azure, a base vert. The shield
supported by a soybean plant, a wheat spike and a maize cob vert and or
interlacing a pig argent.
Article 6.
The shield supported by two
branches of mate herb vert. A scroll gules with the toponym sable "24-11 Áurea
1987". The shield surmounted by a mural crown representing the three powers
constitutive of the municipality: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/a/aurea/lei-ordinaria/1990/8/79/lei-ordinaria-n-79-1990-sao-simbolos-municipais-a-bandeira-municipal-e-o-brasao?q=bandeira
- Leis Municipais database
The flag is divided in four sectors, white,
celestial blue, yellow and green, limited by diagonal stripes starting from the
flag's upper left corner, and charged in the center with the municipal coat of
arms.
Photo:
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradeaurea/photos/a.529523590439837/1391877430871111/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 11 July 2020