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It appears the municipality does not have a flag, as the municipality appears to not understand the concept and instead informed me there is a mural with the symbol.
Daniel Rentería, October 25 2024
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The symbol was designed by Architect Jesús Elías Braun and adopted in October 2015. Jesús simply wanted to reform the municipal coat of arms, and as such its design was donated to the municipality free of charge. As for its design, from the Municipal Regulation on Police and Government:
CIUDAD PRÓCER - Cradle of illustrious men. Title given to Arizpe by the Sonoran Congress in 1977 which alludes to the personalities which originated in this municipality who were key in the becoming of the Republic.
Temple of Our Lady of the Assumption - National historic landmark located in the city of Arizpe, Sonora. Construction ordered by the Spanish in the 17th century.
Huecaritpa - Place of brave or colored ants. Ópata vocabulary from which the name of Arizpe is derived. Arit, brave ant, and pa, place.
Productive activities - Agriculture, cattle-raising, and mining. Principal sectors of the Arizpe economy.
Juan Bautista de Anza - New Spanish military leader of Basque descent who became the governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the Spanish empire, remembered for participating in various expeditions of exploration done in an effort to find a secure route to California.
Internal Provinces of the West - Arizpe was named capital of this territory, with jurisdiction over the intendency of New Vizcaya (modern-day states of Durango and Chihuahua), the territory which today occupies the states of Sonora, both States of Baja California, Sinaloa, and Coahuila on the Mexican side, similarly Arizona, California, and Texas in the United States.
1648 - Year of foundation of Arizpe by the Jesuit missionary Jerónimo de la Canal
Daniel Rentería, 25 October 2024
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Nothing much is known about the old coat of arms besides its description, according to the Encyclopedia of Municipalities and Delegations of Mexico:
It has in an upper line the name Arizpe; it is divided into four sectors: two upper and two lower; the two upper ones represents their touristic potential and history while the two lower ones represent the wealth of the municipality. The upper left, of a blue field, represents the old provinces of the west, with Arizpe as capital; the upper right, on a clear yellow field, represents the historic church in color of stone, its style is special in the state. At both sections, they are unified by an effigy of the colonel Juan Bautista de Anza as a notable colonizer and whose remains rest here; he is marked in a triangle with the point going down and the base ends at the upper line; the lower left section on a green field represents its agricultural wealth, a head [of cattle], a head of garlic and a head of potato as primordial activities of today; the lower right section represents mining, on a red field...symbolizing a mine with a shovel, pick, and rails coming from a cave; the four sections are connected by a white circle and in the symbol is what is accepted as the origin of the name Arizpe, Place of brave ants.
Daniel Rentería, 25 October 2024
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Indeed a very rare case of a commissary having a coat of arms, probably the only one in the entire state.
The coat of arms of the Sinoquipe commissary has a similar shape to that of the state. Its crest is a sun, within it being two hands with the
date over them reading 1638, the supposed date of foundation; 1646 is the actual accepted year. In its blue border is the text "SAN IGNACIO
DE SINOQUIPE". The inner part of the coat of arms is divided into three sections, with one section taking half on the right and the others
taking a quarter. The division between sections is marked by a dirt road. On the upper left is a black line dividing its halves diagonally; in the
center is a white circle with a cattle head imposed upon it, clearly a symbol of the local economy. On the lower left, it is divided diagonally into
red and white; corn is on the white field and a hill with a pickaxe and shovel crossed together is on the red, also symbols of the local economy. The
right half depicts the St. Ignatius of Loyola church, with the mountains and sun in the background. In front of the church is the Sonora River, with a
cross being imposed beside it.
Daniel Rentería, 25 October 2024
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