History of the Bolivian flag

Last modified: 2005-07-16 by antonio martins
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• Introduction
• Flags of 1825-1826
• Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation (1838-1839)
• Flags of 1826-1851
• Santa Cruz de la Sierra Republic (1904)
• Bolivia

• Two articles about the history of the bolivian national flag:
  • http://www.bolivia.com/noticias/autonoticias/detallenoticia468.asp
  • http://www.bolivia.com/noticias/autonoticias/detallenoticia469.asp
  both are in Spanish.
  reported by Mark Sensen, 09 Mar 2002
• History of the Bolivian coat-of-arms: Great site; a real treasure. The most comprehensive site about natioal coats of arms that I saw (and you know I saw plenty). Try all the links and don’t miss a visit to the Galería.
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 30 Dec 1998
• History of the Bolivian Flag

Introduction

J. G. Fuentes [fue75] shows the variants of the Bolivian flag 1825-26, the Bolivian monochrome official flags 1854-55 and the arms of Bolivia 1888-c1900 and since c1900.
Dave Martucci, 19 Mar 2000

According to [mch85a], the flag with its present order of stripes was introduced in 1851 but a number of variations had been used since Bolivia gained independence in 1825.
Jarig Bakker, 02 Jan 2002