São Francisco de Assis, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) (original) (raw)


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São Francisco de Assis, RS (Brazil) image by Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020

Municipality

The municipality of S�o Francisco de Assis (19,258 inhabitants in 2010; 250,130 ha) is located 485 km of Porto Alegre.

S�o Francisco de Assis is named for the S�o Francisco de Assis fort established in 1801 on the left bank of river Inhacund�. The settlement of the village that developed nearby was initiated in 1809.
The municipality of S�o Francisco de Assis was established by Law No. 1,427 promulgated on 4 January 1884, separating from S�o Vicente and Itaqui.

https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website

Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020

Symbols

A yellow flag with a broad off-centred red cross, bearing the municipal arms in a white disk on the cross.
Dirk Schönberger, 30 March 2012

The flag and arms of S�o Francisco de Assis are prescribed by a Municipal Law [data not available].

Article 6.
The flag of S�o Francisco de Assis, designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro Escobar for Com�rcio Mundial de Bandeiras Ltda, is described as follows.
Rectangular, yellow with a red cross charged on the arm's crossing with a white circle featuring the coat of arms described in Article 19.

Article 19.
The coat of arms of S�o Francisco de Assis, designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro Escobar, is described as follows.
An Iberian shield, or, with a mantle gules cantoned in chief by two trilobate Greek crosses of the same. A bordure azure charged with the cordon of St. Francis. The shield surmounted by an eight-towered mural crown argent ports sable. The shield supported dexter by a soybean plant in base a wheat spike and sinister by a maize plant in base a rive panicle all leaved and fructed proper. A scroll gules with the toponym "S�O FRANCISCO DE ASSIS" or.

https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/795/bandeira
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/794/brasao
Municipal website

Photos
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Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020