Last modified: 2004-12-29 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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by António Mártins Tuválkin, May 03, 2000. | |
See: Coat of arms of white bakground: unofficial flags |
Official name: | Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes / Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes |
Short-form names: | Estado de Aguascalientes / State of Aguascalientes; Aguascalientes. |
Location: | Center of Mexico. It neighbors the Mexican States of Jalisco (S), and Zacatecas (N, W, E) |
Area: | 5,197 km2 |
Municipalities: | 11 |
Population: | 944,285 inhabitants |
Capital: | Aguascalientes (Pop.: 643,419) |
Statehood: | November 10, 1853 |
Arms adopted: | About 1946 |
INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.
Per pale and point per
per fess; I is light blue with three silver (?) charges I cannot tell
apart; II is grey (silver) with grapes (?) above something, both silver
(?); III is yellow with a bee (?) inside a cogwheel (?). Bordure brown
with upper case serif bold inscription in yellow; saying, from 9 o'clock
from 3 o'clock (arched inwards) "bona terra, bona gens" and from 3 o'clock
from 9 o'clock (arched ourwards) "aqua clara, clarum coelum" -- latin for
"Good land (=earth, soil, country), good people; clear (=pure) water,
clear (=light, fair) sky". The "U"s are not "V"s and the "OE" is
geminated, supposing a 19th cent. CoA. I'd expect "aquae calidae", to make
it canting... ;-) Helmet and mantle, the later unusually tricolored of
red, grey (silvery) and yellow (golden).
António Mártins Tuválkin, May 3, 2000.