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Potosí department, Bolivia

Last modified: 2005-07-16 by antonio martins
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[Flag of Potosí]
by Jaume Ollé, 02 Nov 1996
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Description of the flag

Potosí’s flag is based on a pennant of the Vicunas, a factional group in the 16th century in the war between the Spanish and Basques. [med]
Jaume Ollé, 02 Nov 1996

Assymetrical quarterly?

The flag of Potosí shows in some sources to be a “scandinavian quarterly”, i.e., with the vertical division off centered to the hoist. Is this so?
António Martins, 07 Sep 1999

No scandinavian quarterly: the effect in the image is due to be a waved flag. The flag is divised in four equal rectangular parts.
Jaume Ollé, 12 Sep 1999

Simplified armorial banner?

CoA of Potosí
by António Martins, 19 Nov 1999,
from http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/krsul

Is the design of the flag based on the central eschuteon of the department’s coat of arms, although the quartering is inverted?
António Martins, 19 Nov 1999