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Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (Mexico)

Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave

Last modified: 2020-02-21 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Presentation of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave

  • Official name (Spanish): Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
  • Official name (English): Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
  • Short-form names: State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave; State of Veracruz-Llave; State of Veracruz; Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave; Veracruz-Llave, Veracruz
  • Location: East of Mexico. It limits the Mexican States of Tamaulipas (N), San Luis Potosí (NW), Hidalgo and Puebla (W) Oaxaca (S), Tabasco and Chiapas (SE), and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Area: 71 820 km2
  • Municipalities: 212
  • Population: 7 127 832 inhabitants (2015)
  • Capital: Xalapa (Pop.: 457 298 [2010])
  • Statehood: 3 October 1824
  • Flags adopted: No flag has been officially adopted
  • State Arms adopted: Decree of 11 October 1954, published on 23 November 1954

Government flags

    2018 -

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave 2018-2024 [Defacto flag] | [One or more variants under the same basic design]
1
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 18 December 2019.

The coat of arms in the midle is the corporate image used by Governor Cuitláhuac García Jiménez adopted in 2018.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 18 December 2019.


    2016 - 2018

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave 2004-2010 [Defacto flag] | [One or more variants under the same basic design]
1
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 18 December 2019.

This variant was alternatively used by Governor Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares (2016-18). The version of the coat of arms is that of the first corporate image designed in 2004 for the government of Fidel Herrera Beltrán (2004-10)
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 18 December 2019.


    2004-2010 and 2010-2016

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave 2004-2010 and 2010-2016 [Defacto flag] | [One or more variants under the same basic design]
1, 2, 3, 4,
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 18 December 2019.

This flag flew during the governments of Fidel Herrera Beltrán (2004-10) and Javier Duarte de Ochoa (2010-16). The oat of arms is not from any corporate image, but simply another version of the State arms. During Herrera's tenure, the flag had a border in red, white and green (from the outside), taking the current order (green in the outside) since 2010.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 18 December 2019.


    Used alternatively until 2010

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave [Defacto flag] | [One or more variants under the same basic design]
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 9 March 2005.

Veracruz-Llave has a flag for government usage. It was first seen during the government of Miguel Alemán Velasco (1998-2004) 1, 2, and 3. This flag appeaared hoisted in the Sala de Banderas (Flags Room) of the state governor's place-work, along with the National flag, at the Government headquarters in Xalapa, State capital city. The flag is but the classic white field charged with the State coat of arms, with the addition to the white field of an all-around red-and-green narrow border. Besides, the flag seems to be exclusive for Government usage. It is permanently hoisted in the government seat in Xalapa. It coudl be seen during governor meetings and acts, mostly inside the Sate territory. The photo taken on December 2004 in the Flags Room, at the State government headquarters in Xalapa, depicts in the background to Veracruz-Llave newly-elected Governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán (center); behind, on the wall, a picture of former Mexican President Benito Juárez García (above center), the National flag (left), the Veracruz-Llave flag (righ), and the National coat of arms (above left) and that of Veracruz-Llave (above right). Courtesy by Government of the State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascá, 10 March 2005.


    Coat of arms on white background

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave white flag [Defacto flag] | [One or more variants under the same basic design]
1, 2,
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 9 March 2005.

However, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave flies as well a flag in white charged with the coat of arms.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascá, 10 March 2005.


Coat of arms

Veracruz coat of arms
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 6 May 2001.

The Law of the Coat of Arms (1954) describes the State emblem as follows:

Article unique.- As an emblem of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz LlaveIt is adopted the coat of arms that will be attached bellow and whose heraldic features are the following: A parted shield, in the upper part on field of vert a tower of or surmounted of a Latin cross of gules, and the word "Vera" in sable and in the center of it; and in the lower part in field of azure the columns of "Plus Ultra", ensign that at the time was granted to the City of Veracruz as a high honor; the shield is bordered with thirteen stars of azure in a field of or; and the whole achievement is in the background of an ornament with its scrolls and two crisscrossed flowery garlands.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 6 May 2001


Tlaxcala flag in Veracruz

During a last visit of the spanish kings a flag diagonally divided to the upper hoist to lower fly, red at hoist and white at fly, was flown at least in one of the towns of indigenous majority that they visited in Veracruz.
Jaume Ollé, 12 May 1998


The flag is that of the State of Tlaxcala.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 21 February 2020.


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