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Aguirre Department, Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina

Pinto Municipality

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Pinto Municipality

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Oct 2007

The Municipality of Pinto is in Department of Aguirre, Province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. now as a flag.

Valentin Poposki, 25 May 2007

The text on the municipal website says that the Decree creating the flag and modifying the official coat of arms of the town was approved by the Municipal Council in its extraordinary session "during the last weeks". All the Councillors, from either the Unión Vecinal or the Partido Justicialista, approved the flag.

The new flag recalls by its colours the national flag (white and blue) and the local feeling (red and black), as well as the sun.

On 20 September 1890, a railway station, unusually big for the time, was inaugurated on land granted by the former Governor of the Province of Santiago del Estero Don Luis Generoso Pinto. This event is considered as the foundation day of the town of Pinto that grew later around the station and has now 4,100 inhabitants.
Ivan Sache, 02 Jun 2007

It is a ~4:7 unequally quartered flag with square hoist areas, red over black at the hoist and while over light blue on the hoist; on the crossing point a yellow sun, its diameter slightly smaller than half the flag’s height.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Oct 2007