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![[flag]](../images/c/cv-21.gif)
image by Waldir and António Martins,
24 Apr 2017
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São Vicente municipality covers in full the eponymous island (in
English: St. Vincent Island — in Cabo Verde, eastern Atlantic, not to be
confused with St. Vincent Island in the Caribbean);
it includes also the uninhabited St. Lucy Island and a few uninhabited
islets to the east.
António Martins, 24 April 2017
The former incarnation of the current municipality was named after its
capital, Mindelo city: Mindelo / São Vicente municipality have had three
city emblems: Colonial,
post-independence, and current.
Along with these, two or three flags existed.
António Martins, 24 April 2017
The emblem is used on a blue and white flag, gyronny
of eight in Portuguese style, divided along
diagonals and apothemas
(photo
of official use: 2015.06.16
mayoral interview
given to the
national
television).
This background for a caboverdean municipal flag is apparently unique,
adding to plain, quartered, horizontal bicolor,
and rayonny. Maybe it is a reminiscence of the colonial
flag.
António Martins, 25 April 2017
More recently (after 2004; when exactly?) a new
emblem was adopted and it inherits the maritime topics of the
previous two: Just like most current
caboverdean municipal emblems, it has a round shield
surrounded on the top half by a ring of ten yellow stars interrupted at the
middle by a chain of four green links and with a scroll along the bottom.
The circular shield (double edged in blue and white) is Celeste (light
blue) with a base Azure wavy of four charged at dexter with a helmwheel
Tenny/Orangy (orange, contrasting with both golden/yellow and with red)
and at sinister with an anchor counterbendwise Gules and issuant from
this base a mountain Tawny/Brown at dexter and issuant also from the
mountain a dimidiated cogwheel Or and in chief a bird volant Proper
holding a book (?) Argent written Sable. (Some images of this emblem:
[1]
[2]
[3].)
António Martins, 25 April 2017
After independence in 1974-1975, the colonial
coat-of-arms and its flag fell out of use and there’s
information of a city emblem (= municipal emblem?) that includes
1975-1992 Caboverdean emblematics; this was
reported
and depicted by Wikimedia user:Waldir, adding that it went out of use
in 2004: This emblem includes some elements of the
contemporary national emblem, namely the
black star on red, the scallop at the bottom, and (half) a wreath of maize,
and adds blue sea, a fish, an anchor, and a section of a cogwheel. I
don’t know whether this emblem was use on a flag.
António Martins, 25 April 2017
A colonial era flag existed, along with the well known coat of arms, published i.a. in a collection of 1961 Portuguese postage stamps (example facsimiles: [1] [2] [3]). It is
