Meta Department (Colombia) (original) (raw)
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Departamento de Meta
Last modified: 2024-03-02 by rob raeside
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image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 January 2008
See also:
Municipalities:
- Villavicencio
- Acacias
- Barranca de Upía
- Cabuyaro
- Castilla la Nueva
- Cubarral
- Cumaral (San Luis de Cubarral)
- El Calvario
- El Castillo
- El Dorado
- Fuentedeoro
- Granada
- Guamal
- La Macarena
- Lejanias
- Mapiripán
- Mesetas
- Puerto Concordia
- Puerto Gaitán
- Puerto Lleras
- Puerto Lopez
- Puerto Rico
- Restrepo
- San Carlos de Guaroa
- San Juan de Arama
- San Juanito
- San Martin
- Uribe
- Vista Hermosa
Overview
The flag was adopted by Decree Number 234, of July 2, 1970. The flag consists of 17 equal horizontal stripes starting from the top and finishing in the bottom with color green, and overlapped by white, thus making it 9 green stripes and 8 white stripes.
The Coat of Arms was created by Baronio Rojas and accepted officially by Decree Number 164, 1956. Afterwards, on December 5, 1960 the Decree Number 389 was issued, adopting the Coat of Arms with the letters DM (standing for Departamento de Meta)
Source: official website of the Government of the Department of Meta.
E.R, 3 January 2008
Variant with seal
image located by Paul Bassinson, 31 July 2023
A variant of the flag of the Meta Department with a departmental seal is seen athttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Paul Bassinson, 31 July 2023
Coat of Arms
