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by Joseph McMillan
Source:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/6193/bauru.html.
Dov Gutterman, 3 April 1999
According to an official
website (click FAQ)
comes the information that the coat of arms on the flag was originally
adopted by law 332 of 1929 and revised by law 3393 of 9 October 1991. The
shield is green with a jaguar (onça) passant proper and in chief three
yellow stars. The jaguar represents suzerainty and the stars the three old
railroads (Noroeste do Brasil, Paulista, and Sorocaba) that cross the
municipality. The shield is flanked by branches of coffee. The motto is
Custos vigilat (Alert sentinel). The colors are said to stand for the
forest and coffee plantations (green); the nobility, faith and wisdom of the
pioneers (yellow); and blood shed for the nation (the red openings of the
mural crown and the coffee beans). The flag looks like one of Lauro Ribeiro
Escobar’s standard designs, green with progressively smaller superimposed
triangles based on the hoist, red, yellow, green, and yellow, forming a
spearhead pointed toward the fly, symbolizing the pioneering spirit and the
historic advance toward the west. The coat of arms is placed in the hoist.
Joseph McMillan, 18 March 2003