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by Zeljko Heimer, 19 August 2001
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I am not sure weather this flag is still used, but, according
to one of the books on my collection (EASA: Banderas y escudos
del Mundo), and I am pretty sure that, if used, it is an
alternative flag, used together to the especific municipal flag.
This flag has the same Ecuadorian tricolori, only that, on the
centre of the blue band, a circular allignment of twenty, white,
five-pointed stars . These stars represent the provinces of
Ecuador (Azuay, Bolívar, Cañar, Carchi, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo,
El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galápagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los
Ríos, Manabí, Morona Santiago, Napo, Pastaza, Pichincha,
Tungurahua, Zamora Chinchipa).
Guillermo Aveledo, 9 October 1999
you are right. The law is dated 5-12-1900 and then there were
a 12 stars circle of occupying three bands; later more stars were
added, and currently are 21, but only until some years ago (when
Sucumbios province was created) the stars are 20. I have a
pattern with 12 stars; they are in big size and distributed in
all three stripes. About 19 stars I'm not sure that the stars are
all in the blue stripe because I never saw this image.
Jaume Olle', 12 October 1999
Ecuadorian civil flag is a banner of the 3 colored bands with
the ring of white stars centered on the blue. There have
been (at least) 3 different versions of that design: a
1970s design with 19 stars, a version that flew for most of the
1980s' with 20 stars (when Galapagos Islandsbecame a province),
& the current version (flown since 1989) with 21 stars in a
ring (after Sucumbíos split off from Napo, & became a
province likewise itself)
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 14 October 1999
According to Album 2000 [pay00]
- Municipal Flag. -S-/--- (1:2) - National flag with a ring of
white five-pointed stars in the middle of the blue stripe.
According to Robert Lloyd Wheelock the current number of
stars is 21 (since 1989). The flag with 20 stars was used in
1980's, and one with 19 stars in 1970's. Other lesser number
might have been in use previously, Jaume Olle mentions
12 star flag adopted in 1900, that had stars reaching out of the
blue stripe The image in Album is therefore incorrect - having
only 19 stars.
Zeljko Heimer, 1 August 2001
The Flaggenbuch (1939-41) section dedicated to Ecuador show it
with 17 stars.
Ivan Sache, 2 August 2001
With the admission of Orellana as the 22nd Province into the
union of Ecuador, its civil flag should now have 22 white stars.
In my opinion it should be regarded as Ecuador's civil flag and
not as Municipal Flag.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 14 August 2001
This flag is according to law dated 5 december 1900 which stste that the national flag, when is hoisted in an Ayuntamiento (Local Council Hedquareters) won't bear the arms but a ring with stars (one star for each province, then there's several versions until the current 22 stars). "Banderas" show the version with 12 stars occuping 5/7 of the hight. Jorge Hurtado send me later the version with 21 stars that are very small, all within the blue stripe (Hurtado