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image by Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
The municipality of Lages (157,743 inhabitants in 2018; 264,431 ha, therefore
Santa Catarina's biggest municipality by its area) is located 225 km south-west
of Florianópolis.
Lages is named for the Campos de Lajens (Flagstones'
Field), a wide area located between São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. Lajens was
already mentioned in the 17th century as a resting place used by tropeiros that
conveyed cattle from Rio Grande do Sul to São Paulo.
The town of Lajes was
established in 22 November 1766 and elevated a municipality on 25 May 1860. The
town was renamed fo Lages in 1960, a written form not compliant with modern
Portuguese lexicography.
Lages still has 76,000 bovine cattle, being Santa
Catarina's capital of cattle-breeding.
https://www.amures.org.br/noticias/index/ver/codMapaItem/41771/codNoticia/115806
AMURES, 18 November 2009
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
The flag of Lages was originally prescribed by Municipal Law No. 186
promulgated on 31 July 1964.
Article 1.
The flag of the municipality
of Lages shall have the following characteristics: a blue panel charged in the
upper angle with a quadrilateral with the green and yellow colors arranged
horizontally, the blue field charged with seven small stars representing the
geographical location of the seven districts and a larger star representing the
municipality.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/l/lages/lei-ordinaria/1964/19/186/lei-ordinaria-n-186-1964-institue-a-bandeira-do-municipio-de-lages
Leis Municipais database
Article 1 of the Law was rephrased by Municipal
Law no. 2,416 promulgated on 30 June 1998.
Article 1.
The flag of the
municipality of Lages shall have the following shape and characteristics.
§1.
I - The flag shall be composed of a blue cloth of 20 units in length on 14 units
in width.
II - In the upper left angle, a rectangle of 7 units in length and
4 units in width, composed of two equal horizontal stripes, green on top and
yellow on bottom.
III - On the blue field, matching the geographical
location, one white star of 2 units, representing the municipality, and smaller
white stars of 1 unit, representing the districts.
§2 - The flag shall be
compliant with the drawing shown in the appendix, which is integral part of the
Law, and which shall be amended in every instance of district's creation or
suppression.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/l/lages/lei-ordinaria/1998/241/2416/lei-ordinaria-n-2416-1998-da-nova-redacao-ao-artigo-1-da-lei-n-186-de-31-071964-que-instituiu-a-bandeira-do-municipio-de-lages
Leis Municipais database
The drawing appended to the Law features the
bigger star inscribed in an imaginary circle of 1.5 unit in radius and the
smaller ones inscribed in an imaginary circle of 0.75 unit in radius, which does
not match the dimensions elusively given in the text. The bigger star is
centered on the flag. The center of the lower, left star is located 9.63 units
from the flag's upper edge and 6.25 units from the hoist, while the center of
the upper, right star is located1 14.37 units from the flag's upper edge and
13.75 units from the hoist.
image by Ivan Sache,
4 November 2021
The flag in actual use, however, is not compliant with
the official specifications. The stars are bigger and no longer lined on the
ascending diagonal.
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/CamaradeLages/photos/2796136093831795
https://www.facebook.com/CamaradeLages/photos/2613670668745006
https://www.facebook.com/CamaradeLages/photos/2414825455296196
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021