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by Guillermo Aveledo, 18 August 2000
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Design and Meaning - Trujillo is a central western and of the
Andes Venezuelan State. The name of the state reminds the ancient
Province of Trujillo: one of the seven which declares the
Independence of Venezuela on July, 5th, 1811.
The Trujillo State Flag is a rectangle divided in two horizontal
stripes with the same size: red (above) and white (below) with a
green triangle over it, near the staff and charging a five
pointed and white star engraves with a dove's silhouette
subjecting an olive tree branch with its beack. The red
stripe symbolizes the blood leaked by the Trujillians in favor of
the consolidation of Venezuela; the "Decreto de Guerra a
Muerte" (Decree of the War until Death) signed by "El
Libertador" Simon Bolivar on June 15th, 1813 and the life
employed in the creative and firmness labor on material or
intellectually affairs. The white stripe represents the
"Regularizacio'n de la Guerra y Armisticio" (War
regulation and armistice) Treaty, realizes by El Libertador Simon
Bolivar and the Spanish Field Marshall Pablo Morillo on November
25th, 26th, and 27th, 1820: a permanent invitation for the search
of peace and the friendship cultivation founded on the justice.
The green triangle reminds the verdure of the Andes ground and
Trujillians planes, making special emphasis on the agricultural
riches of the state. Its sides suggested the trilogy of
architectonical emblems of the Trujillanity: first, the Cathedral
Church "Del Senor Santiago de Nuestra Senora de la Paz"
(of the Lord Saint James of Our Lady of the Peace) concluded on
1662, see of the veneration of the precious seventeen century's
image of the Holiest Virgin under that appellation, blazon of the
State and their capital city: holy place where the bishop Lasso
de la Vega received El Libertador as a Governor and commended him
to the Divine Providence on March 1st, 1821; second, the National
Monument of the Bolivar and Morillo's Interview in the city of
Santa Ana and finally, the Votive Monument of Our Lady of the
Peace, live petition for the World Wide Peace. The White Star,
symbol of the ancient Province of Trujillo: one of the seven
which declared "in the Name of Almighty God" the
Independence of Venezuela on July 5th, 1811, reminds too the
Votive Monument of Our Lady of the Peace how the highest of its
kind on the World.
Historical Synthesis - With the assistance of representative and
important personalities of the region, and by previous citation,
the appointed Committee by the Trujillo State Executive with the
Decree P-40 signed on July 4th, 1994, for serve by Jury in the
"Bandera Oficial del Estado Trujillo" (Official Flag of
the Trujillo State) concourse, established by Decree P-30 dated
on June, 7th of that year, had a reunion in the Elliptical Hall
of the Government Palace on the next October 4th, and in that
singular opportunity was unanimous approved the Flag Project made
by Professor Manuel Nunez Gil, which was officially adopted by
means of the Special Decree signed by the Trujillo State Governor
on November 18th, 1994.
Sources:
Documentary and graphic material provides by Mr. Huma Rosario
Tavera, Historian and Chronicler of Trujillo City, and Mr. Manuel
A. Brugnoli Rivera, Trujillian Businessman, on August 1st, 2000.
Raul Jesus Orta Pardo, 16 August 2000
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by Raul Jesus Orta Pardo, 16 August 2000
The Trujillo State Coat of Arms shows an oval shape divided
per pale and fess with a bar on its center. The first quarter
charges on a silvered ground a golden zigzag ray naissant of an
arrow which represents a pen and reminds the "Decreto de
Guerra a Muerte" (War until Death Decree) signed by El
Libertador Simon Bolivar in 1813 and besides the Trujillian
Culture and Intellectuality. The second quarter in Or (yellow)
presents an alliance, heraldical figure which represents two
hands in friendly gesture: one dressed with an azure (blue)
sleeve and the other with a gules (red) sleeve which jointed to
the ground allude to the National Flag and represent the Bolivar
and Morillo Interview in 1820, of highest importance for the
Venezuelan Emancipation. The third quarter, in Gules (red) for
reminds the blood leaked by the Trujillians in favor of the
national sovereignty, shows a representation of the camp of the
Battle of Niquitao where the invincible patriot General José
Félix Ribas conquered the victory which open the passage to
Caracas for the independent forces during the Campana Admirable
(The Admirable Campaign) leaded by El Libertador in 1813. The
golden bar with the denomination ESTADO TRUJILLO (Trujillo State)
wrote on silvered letters, reminds the Trujillanity riches. The
external ornaments of the shield are a golden star which
represents the ancient Province of Trujillo: one of the
seven which declared the Independence of Venezuela on July
5th, 1811. The bronze extended eagle stand on the star symbolizes
the legendary haughtiness and courage of the Trujillian People.
The sugar cane branch and the coffee tree branch at the flanques
of the shield represents two of the principal agricultural
products of the region and the silvered pennant which laced it,
contain the follows ephemeris how mottoes: 15 de Junio de
1813, date of the "War until Death Decree" and 25 de
Noviembre de 1820, the day when was signed the
"Regularización de la Guerra y Armisticio" (War
regulation and armistice) Treaty between the patriots and
royalist forces.
Raul Jesus Orta Pardo, 16 August 2000