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 image located by Ivan Sache, 19 July 2020
 image located by Ivan Sache, 19 July 2020 
The municiplity of Itaara (5,010 inhabitants in 2010; 17,240 ha) is located 300 
km of Porto Alegre.
Itaara was settled in 1857 by the Germans Jacob 
Albrecht, Jacob Adami and Miguel Kroeff, who acquired plots from the surgeon 
Meanoel Alves. The parish of São José do Pinhal was established on 21 May 1882. 
In 1904, the banker Maurice Hirsh acquired plots from Emília Pereira Santos and 
Camilo Barcelos, parts of the domain owned by Colonel João Batista de Oliveira 
Melo, initiating a second colonization period in Otaara and the first Jewish 
colonization in Brazil, by immigrants coming from Bessarabia. The settlement was 
named Colônia Philippson, as a tribute to Franz Philippson, administrator of the 
Jewish Colonization Association.
The municipality of Itaara was established 
by State Law No. 10,643 promulgated on 28 December 1995, and inaugurated on 1 
January 1997.
 
http://www.itaara.rs.gov.br/ 
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 19 July 2020
The flag and arms of Itaara are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 
50 promulgated on 29 August 1997.
Article 1.
The coat of arms of the 
municipality features dexter a field azure with a sun or in the center 
surmounting mountains and Brazilian pines vert crossed by a fess argent.
The 
descriptive memoir and the graphic art of the coat of arms are part of this Law.
Descriptive memoir
1. General heraldic description
The coat of arms of 
the municipality of Itaara - RS, in Italo-Germanic style, features dexter a 
field azure with a sun or in chief, superimposed by mountains and Brazilian 
pines vert, and crossed by a fess argent.
The division between the chief and 
dexter is a fess serrated azure superimposed with another sable. From the chief 
to sinister a field azure surmounted by serrated lines azure superimposed by a 
triangle argent surmounted by two brown hands holding soybean grain and pods 
vert and or. All outlined sable.
The supporters are maize cobs, wheat spikes, 
bunches of grapes and soybean pods or, vert and azure, outlined sable.
The 
scroll harmoniously enlaces the supporters, gules, sable and argent with the 
toponym "1837 Itaara 1995".
The shield surmounted by a mural crown argent, 
gules and sable.
2. Color heraldic description
Or (yellow): Represents 
work resources.
Azure (blue): Represents wisdom.
Argent (silver) : 
Represents the mystery of faith.
Vert (green): Represents life, nature and 
hope.
Gules (red): Represents justice and power.
Sable (black): Represents 
prudence and protection.
The flag of the municipality of Itaara - RS is 
composed of 14 units on 20 units, its colors divided in diagonal stripes; in 
chief, a sky blue stripe, sinister, a white stripe: 6.5 units, a red stripe: 7,3 
units, and a yellow, 6.3 units. In vertical, at sinister point, from top to 
bottom, white: 3.8 units, green: 5.1 units and yellow, 5.1 units. In vertical 
dimension from top to the white stripe 7 units in width, white to the sinister 
stripe 7 units and from the chief's horizontal to sinister point zero, blue, 
white from vertical to sinister 7 units and red 7 units.
The drawing 
attached to the Law is required to decypher the description, which does not 
match it - there is no yellow stripe and no green either.
The flag appears to 
be diagonally divided celestial blue-white-red, the white stripe covering one 
half of the flag, with the municipal coat of arms in the center.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/i/itaara/lei-ordinaria/1997/5/50/lei-ordinaria-n-50-1997-institui-os-simbolos-municipais-e-da-outras-providencias 
Leis Municipais database
Photo
https://diariosm.com.br/região/itaara/itaara-decreta-situação-de-emergência-1.2208522 
Image from the municipal website.
Ivan Sache, 19 July 2020