Barrancos Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Barrancos

• Municipalities of Portugal
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Barrancos at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Loures at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

The flag is a quartered flag in yellow and blue with the coat of arms, which is horizontally partitioned in two: above its silver with a cork oak proper with yellow acorns, below its yellow with three wavy bars in silver-blue-silver in the lower part and a wild boar proper above it. The coat of arms is completed with a 4-towered mural crown and a scroll reading "VILA DE BARRANCOS".
Jorge Candeias, 24 Jan 1999

This coat of arms illustrates the characteristics of the region. The cork oak stands for the richnesses of the region (produces mostly cattle and cork), the wavy stripes stand for the Múrti