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![[Cuba municipality]](../images/p/pt-cub.gif)
It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms
centered on a background quarterly (meaning town
rank) of yellow and purple. The coat of arms is vert, a “bouquet”
of ears of weath or tied with a ribbon gules, between two vine grapes. Mural
crown argent with four visible towers (town rank)
and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE
CUBA"
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999
Cuba municipality had 5360 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided
in 4 communes, covering 171 km2. It belongs to the
Beja District and to the old province of
Baixo Alentejo. The curious toponymical
identity with the caribbean country of the same
name is motive of countless jokes, especially since Alentejo is
traditionally a region of communist majority. "Cuba" means in
fact "tub", and the variant "cuva" also exists; this is also
the ethimology for the other Cuba's name.
António Martins, 19 Jul 1999