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by Pascal Gross, 4 February 2005
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THE FLAG - Attributes and Semiology - Consists on a field with approximate ratio 2:3; this is, square and half of length horizontally divided in three stripes: the upper one sky blue and the lower one dark blue, both with width equivalent to 2/5 parts of the one of the field, whereas the rest fifth in the middle of both of it is light green. Completes the design a dark blue triangle reinforced with four fimbriations in angle with the colors white, yellow, light brown and black; the light green map of the State on the center of the dark blue triangle and four white five-pointed stars disposed in arc of circumference with the convexity upwards on the celestial blue stripe. Sky blue represents the Deltaic sky where the hope covers and protects the aspirations of the inhabitants of the region, inspiring the force to raise their spirit and to overcome the difficulties that can limit the harmonic and deserved development of the state. The stars symbolizes the four municipalities which conform the state and are white for remember the peace, the harmony, the spiritual tranquility and the bonanza necessaries for the well-being of the Deltaic community. Dark blue represents the extraordinary hydrographic extension of the State: its multiple fluvial routes and the volume of the numerous sewers which the Father river, the Orinoco, scatters with its innumerable arms over the region. Clear green alludes to the vegetation of the State alerting to contemporary man about rational exploding of palmito (a product obtained from the palm tree on the region), the forest resources, the preservation of the flora and fauna of the delicate regional ecosystem and also represents the farming production and whatever make it possible: the Deltaic producers. The triangle remembers the mouth of Orinoco river spilling its waters on the Atlantic Ocean through countless sewers and symbolizes the fourth letter of Greek alphabet, which alludes properly to the name of the State also represented by means of its territorial profile. With regards to the fimbriations it’s possible to mention that the white one symbolizes the combination of all the colors of solar spectrum and is a tribute to the discoverers of the Delta who with the pass of the time were based there and mixed themselves to found Tucupita giving origin to the settlers of the region, emphasizing its friendly and kind purity; the yellow one represents the mineral wealth of the region and the reflex of the sun that is forms on its aquatic surface in the dusks; clear brown one alludes to the fertility of the ground and the skin’s tone of the ethnic group Warao, ancestral inhabitants of the region with all its i