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(click to enlarge)Buenos Aires was founded by Juan de Garay 11 June 1580 with the City name of
the Trinidad of the Port of the Buenos Aires. In 20 October was gathered the
local Chapter to determine, among other things, the shield of the city. Was
then when it was established the local shield in the one which already was
appearing the crowned black eagle, the little eagles and the red cross. The
black eagle was appearing in the nobiliary shields of Ortiz de Zarate, first
adelantado of the Plata River, and in those of his son-in-law and
succeeding Torres de Vera, of which Juan de Garay was a captain with
greatest powers; the cross of Calatrava
was introduced to symbolize the
Christian faith and the wreath symbolizes to the kingdom of Castille and
Lion; the four little eagles were representing at four cities or villages
that they had to be founded according to the agreements between the first
Adelantado Ortiz de Zarate and the king Felipe II (1569) and of those which
The Trinidad of the Buenos Aires was the second (after Santa Fe, founded in
1573 by Martín Suarez de Toledo) being the others two Conception and Vera.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
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The shield appears modified in 1649 when the governed Hyacinth de Lariz
introduced a pattern containing a dove in chief and an anchor emerging of
the sea in the base.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
This shield appear in the 1807 flag of
the Patricios.
Jaume Ollé, 13 Aug 2000
A new shield was conceded by the king Felipe V in
1716: oval-shaped with
dove in chief and anchor half submerged in the water, short the one which
the shield; in the sea two ships.
This pattern with various variations persists at present.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Dec 1999,
quoting from his article on Flag Report 4
[frp],
based on informations provided by Alberto R. Perazzo,
president of the
Argentine Asociation of Vexillology
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