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At <www.mmrree.gov.ec>
there is a government statement about the flag of Ecuador:
Historical synthesis of the flag - We can identify eight
periods in the history of Ecuador's flag:
1) The 1810 leaders raised a red flag with white mast against the
Spanish authorities. It fell in bloody Samano's hands in 1812.
2) A flag with five horizontal stripes BWBWB and three stars in
the middle stripe to symbolize Guayaquil, Portoviejo and Machala,
was raised by the patriots in the 9th October 1820 Liberation.
(see: 1820 Flag).
3) The previous flag changed by decree the 2nd June 1822:
"The flag of the free province of Guayaquil shall be white
and its first quarter blue with a centered star [no colour
indicated for the star]". (see: 1822 Flag).
4) The Colombian [horizontal] tricolour, which presided the
heroic deed of Pichincha and later on flied over the Tejar tower,
and the 25th May was officially hoisted on the Panecillo fort,
served as well as a sign of annexation of Guayaquil to Colombia
and became definitive. (see: Great
Colombia).
5) When Ecuador comes apart from Greater Colombia in 1830 it
keeps the previous flag. During the 1845 Marcista [March?]
Revolution the blue/white flag returns, now as a vertical
tricolour WBW, the blue stripe with stars. (see: March
1845 Flag).
6) The Cuenca Convention ratified by decree the 6th November 1845
the blu