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image by Dirk Schönberger,
15 April 2012
Source:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapucaia_do_Sul
The municipality of Sapucaia do Sul (138,357 inhabitants in 2015; 5,831 ha)
is located 20 km of Porto Alegre.
Sapucaia do Sul is named for Fazenda
Sapucaia, aka Fazenda del Cerro, established in 1737 by Antônio de Souza
Fernando. His son-in-law, Francisco Pinto Bandeira, owned the adjacent Fazenda
Guaixinin-Sapucaia.
Connected to Porto Alegre by a railway line, Sapucaia
became in the 1930s a place of leisure highly priced by the capital's upper
classes. The building of road BR2 (today, BR116) boosted the town's
industrialization, which was at the time São Leopoldo's 7th district.
The
municipality of Sapucaia do Sul was established on 14 November 1961.
http://www.sapucaiadosul.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 6 August 2020
A white upright pall on a green field, with municipal coat of arms centred.
Dirk Schönberger, 15 April 2012
The flag and arms of Sapucaia do Sul are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 646
promulgated on 13 October 1977.
Article 3.
The municipal flag shall
have the following characteristics.
a) A flag green rectangle, in proportions
2 in length on 1.4 in width, representing the vegetation and topography of the
municipality of Sapucaia do Sul.
b) On the green field a Y-shaped stripe,
running from the middle of the rectangle's lower part to the flag's center,
where it splits into two arms diagonally running to the rectangle's lateral
edges. The white stripe represents industrial power, the progress' backbone of
the municipality.
c) In the center of the green field, superimposed to the
junction of the aforementioned stripes, are placed the municipal arms with the
crown's base on their upper edges,
Article 4.
The flag's features
shall obey the following rules.
a) The flag's width is 14 units.
b) The
flag's length is 20 units.
c) The Y's length is 2.5 units; its edges are
distant of 8.75 units from the lower angles of the outer quarter; the vertical
part shall be 5.5 units; the arm's upper part shall be distant of 1 unit from
each upper angle of the outer quarter.
d) The base of the municipal arms
shall be distant of 4 units from the lower edge of the outer quarter.
e) The
municipal flag shall have an obverse and a reverse.
Article 5.
The
municipal arms are composed of a shied surmounted by a crown, with the following
characteristics.
a) Isosceles triangle, with the base on top, a celestial
blue field symbolizing the sky of Rio Grande do Sul, divided in the middle by a
vertical line forming two scalene triangles, the triangular shape representing
union between the administrative powers and the municipality's population.
b)
The left scalene triangle is charged with a fig-tree with green foliage and
grayish-white trunk, symbolizing the municipality's historic tradition, whose
localization was identified by a fig-tree known as the crooked fig tree since
its trunk was split into two parts, allowing someone to cross it.
c) The
right scalene triangle is charged with a factory equipped with three smoking
chimneys, all white outlined in black, representing the municipality's main
source of income.
d) The base of the isosceles triangle supports a rectangle,
with its left part, yellow, representing Bell's River that flows west of the
municipality, and its right part, flag green, representing the vegetation,
fields and hills of the municipality.
e) A dark red stripe surrounding the
shield from the isosceles triangle's end to the other, inscribed in white
letters "Sapucai do Sul" - "14/11/1961".
f) The shield, outlined in black, is
surmounted by a four-towered crown or, symbolizing Sapucaia do Sul's sovereignty
and its rank of "cidade".
Article 6.
The municipal arms shall have the
following dimensions.
Crown: 4 units in base on 1 in width.
Rectangle: 4
units in base on 1 in width.
Isosceles triangle: 4 units in base on 2 in
width.
Article 14.
It is mandatory for schools to teach the meaning
and heraldic symbolism of the flag and municipal arms.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/s/sapucaia-do-sul/lei-ordinaria/1977/65/646/lei-ordinaria-n-646-1977-dispoe-sobre-a-forma-e-a-apresentacao-dos-simbolos-municipais-e-da-outras-providencias
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms was originally prescribed
by Municipal Law No. 119-A promulgated on 12 October 1964, which was abrogated
by the aforementioned Law.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/s/sapucaia-do-sul/lei-ordinaria/1964/11/119/lei-ordinaria-n-119-1964-concede-auxilio-mensal-no-valor-igual-a-50-do-salario-minimo-regional-ao-ex-servidor-municipal-germino-rodrigues-de-assis
Ivan Sache, 6 August 2020