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by Antonio Broto, 16 July 2001
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I've been trying to find out someting on the flags of the
provinces of Ecuador. The data is quite insecure, and I seem to
have problems even with the numbers of provinces. My Encyclopedia
from 1969 claims that there are 17, W.Smith has 19 and my atlas
also from 1969 (! and from the same publishing house) that there
are 19. All of them agree that there is additionally one
territory - Galapagos Islands or Achipelago Colon, as they call
it. Since Ecuador has a quite unstable history, this is certanly
due to it. Even the flags of the provinces are not the same in
all sources. W. Smith gives 19 flags, but 11 of them he gives as
uncertain. Jaume Olle has on his pages 13 provincial flags, but
with one exception (Guayas) all are different from Smith's
images.
[Note : Since then, two additional province (Sucumbíos and Orellana
(since july 20, 1998)) has been added, and Galapagos has also
been named a province, so that there are now 22 provinces in 4
regions.]
One more thing, W.Smith claims (but doesn't gives an image) that
there is a special flag used on provincial government buildings,
that have a ring of stars. How many stars there are? Is Galapagos
included? What kind of stars they are? White fivepointed seems to
be natural conclusion. But are they pointed up, as on Eur.Union
flag or outwards as on Cook Islands? And are they all in the blue
field, like in Venezuelan flag?
Zeljko Heimer, 15 July 1996