Paraguayan national flag: version of 1967-1988

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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image by Željko Heimer, 30 Oct 2002 (clipart source: CorelDraw)

• About the flag
• Reverse

• History of the paraguayan national flag
• Paraguay
• Independentist flags in La Plata region (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay: 1810-1840)

About the flag

Even official Paraguayan flagmakers and flag designers and ministers and and and misinterpreted the Paraguayan arms. You know the drawings in [ped70], [smi75b] and [smi80] which all showed correct flag and arms, as that were the emblems in use. I provided two designs (obverse and reverse) of the flag as it is used now and added that it came in use about 1990 without special sanction, as there were only minor graphic changes to the coat of arms. What I did not know: the flag and the coat of arms were introduced in 1967, when each element was pecisely described. But using exactly the elements of the 1842’s arms! They only gave the arms a new interpretation «as there were uncountable variations until now».
Ralf Stelter, 23 Jan 2001

Reverse

image by Željko Heimer, 30 Oct 2002 (clipart source: CorelD