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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 February 2021
See also:
The image is based on
www.ame.gov.ec
Falko Schmidt, 1 July 2007
In 2010 the canton had around 42,500 inhabitants, a bit more than 50% living
in the namsake city.
Acc. to the municipal webpage:
https://www.municipiosanlorenzo.gob.ec/municipio/simbolos-cantonales
San
Lorenzo gained the rank of a canton on 22 March 1978. The first settlement was
appropriated by the Spanish crown and established in 1735 as El Pailón. San
Lorenzo itself was established on 10 August 1743 by Pedro Vicente Maldonado, an
Ecuadorean scientist.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Lorenzo_(Ecuador)
The flag is a
blue-yellow-green horizontal tricolour with ratio of stripes approx. 5:4:4 with
a semi-radiant yellow sun with face in canton.
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 February 2021
The
canton has a dark blue logotypo with the white faces of an indigenous couple,
three white stars and the flag colours ordered like expanding rays in bend
sinister.
Coat of Arms:
The shield is oval fimbriated golden, depicting
the faces of the indigenous couple at dexter, the man, being in front, is
holding a torch, the couple is surrounded by a golden aurora ending under the
treetop of a palm Vert at dexter, which ends as a reddish cornucopia in base,
charged with some kind of golden box, and a red fish coming out of the
cornucopia, all in front of a green mouth of a river with a rock in natural
colour at sinister and a sail in cantre, all in all under a blue sky, under the
fish is a golden chain with six green gemstones.
Meaning:
It is all a bit
speculative, but ususally the torch is a symbol of freedom or liberation, the
cornucopia of abundance. The mouth of the river might refer to the name. The
aurora is mentioned in the local hymn. The fish might be a so called Green
Terror (Spanish: Terror Verde, Latin: Andinoacara rivulatus), a colourful
freshwater fish in the cichlid family. The fish originates from the Pacific side
of South America from the Tumbes River in Peru to the Esmeraldas River in
Ecuador. It is polymorphic and can have white or gold-orange edging to the tail
and dorsal fins, being typical for the region.
(see:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andinoacara_rivulatus). The background is probably
referring to local lagoons (Estero Orgullo and/or Estero de Hoja Blanca and/or
Rio Tambilla).
Plain flags:
The image of a plain tricolour with
stripes of equal width is displayed in the statistics of the canton at
http://app.sni.gob.ec/sni-link
Another one with stripes in “Greater Colombian proportions” 2:1:1 is
depicted at
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Bandera_Canton_San_Lorenzo_(Ecuador).svg.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Bandera_de_San_Lorenzo.png displays
the same flag with oval shield in the canton.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 February 2021
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