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by Blas Delgado
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The image at pueblos-de-puertorico.com (defunct) site is
exactly the same as at lexjuris
site. In the last site a description in Spanish. I assume that
the bird on the flag is a local parrot (?) . Río Grande seems to
be better known as 'Ciudad del Yunque' after a mountainpeak close
by; it is 30 Km east of San Juan in northeast Puerto Rico; it was
founded June 16, 1840; there are 45,648 Riograndeños.
Jarig Bakker, 4 Febuary 2000
Río Grande (literally, 'big river', and stands for the
Espíritu Santo River) - The flag has as its components the main
representative symbols of the city. Over a white triangle it
appears the Puerto Rican parrot, Amazonia vitatta vitatta (an
alarmingly endangered species), by way that this is its
territory, specially the El Yunque Mountain (and other peaks in
the Luquillo Range), where this autochthonous species still
subsists. The green band represents the Range that comprises the
group of mountains where El Yunque overtop within the Río Grande
jurisdiction (in fact, and contrary to popular belief, Pico del
Este is the tallest mountain within the Range. El Yunque's
significance comes from the fact that it was the Taíno's holiest
mountain). The blue band represents the Espíritu Santo (Holy
Ghost) River and makes reference to the city name.
Blas Delgado, 16 April 2001
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by Nelson Román, 16 July 2004
In a field of silver, two Puerto Rican parrots (Amazon vitatta vitatta) , accompanied by a waving