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Pacho (Cundinamarca, Colombia)

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by Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 11 January 2004



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The flag and coat of arms of Pacho (Cundinamarca), capital of the Rionegro Province, thanks to a friend that has a page on the town in which he lived for a long time (<usuarios.lycos.es/usataque/simbolos.html>) and here is the description:
Flag: composed of three horizontal stripes of same size. The upper one blue, representing the dome of the sky, the waters, the ornament of virtues and values of spirit. The middle one, white, as symbol of honesty and peace. The lower, emerald green, symbol of hope, feith, honor, friendship and open space in the fields. Aditionally, in the center it will have the coat of arms of the municipality either printed or embroidered.
Coat of Arms: The shield will be coated with two flags of the municipality whose staffs will be crossed.The upper right over a background of Gules tincture (red: means effort and sacrifice of every remarkable human work, the creating and purifying fire as well as blood poured in the whole history of the municipality), displays two figures in argent (wealth that work produces): an anvil (the iron industry and the sociocultural value of the discipline in which the the emblematic character of the highest human values were tempered) and a gear (the proy