Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe United Commune (Portugal)

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União das Freguesias de Cambeses do Rio,Donões e Mourilhe, Concelho de Montalegre, Distrito de Vila Real

• Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe United Commune
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• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe
• Former Cambeses do Rio Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Cambeses do Rio
• Former Donões Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Donões
• Former Mourilhe Commune (until 2013)
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Mourilhe

• Montalegre Municipality
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Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe United Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 June 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or a stonemason´s mallet Gules with its handle Sable crossed in bend over a shepherd´s staff Gules in bend sinister, in chief a crescent Gules, in base ears of maize and wheat Vert bundled by a ribbon Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE CAMBESES DO RIO, DONÕES E MOURILHE".
Meaning:
As usual, elements from the coats of arms of the constituent communes were used to create the the coat of arms of the new, amalgamated commune. The rendering of the mallet looks much better now.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 June 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 28 February 2015, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 June 2024

Presentation of Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe

Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe is one of the five communes of Montalegre Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 273 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 45,03 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 June 2024

Former Cambeses do Rio Commune (until 2013)

Flag

This commune didn´t have its symbols fully approved yet when it was disestablished. We can presume it was a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a currently unknown background.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Gules a shepherd´s staff Argent in pale and overall six rye ears Or in pale ordered per bend sinister, in sinister chief a millstone Argent, base wavy of four of Argent and Azure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black serifed letters "CAMBESES do RIO".
Meaning:
The word "cambeses" is trivially the plural of "cambês", though this word doesn´t seem to have meaning; it is however similar to "cambado", meaning "bowlegged" or even "lame", so the staff on these arms, if meant to be (also) a crutch, could be partly canting. In turn, the phrase "do rio" means literally "of the river" — which makes the wavy base on these arms also partly canting.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2024

Established by the CHAAP on 25 January 2010
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2024

Presentation of Cambeses do Rio

Cambeses do Rio was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 130 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 15,02 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 July 2024

Former Donões Commune (until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Gules two straw capes Or, in base a stonemason´s mallet Or with its handle Argent crossed in bend over a chisel Or in bend sinister. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "DONÕES".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 2 July 2012, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2024

Presentation of Donões

Donões was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 61 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 9,39 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2024

Former Mourilhe Commune (until 2013)

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 June 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Or, per pale a crescent Azure and a scallop Gules, the latter flanked by two pairs of rye ears Vert with their stem tips crossed per saltire. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "MOURILHE".
Meaning:
These elements were chosen to mean respectively: Scallop: Saint James the Elder, rye: Local agriculture, crescent: Role in the Reconquest era. Concerning the latter, I suspect it is also a canting (or punning) element as the word "mourilhe", albeit not lexicological, is (or at least appears to be) an unstandard hypochoristic of "mouro", meaning "Moor".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 June 2024

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 11 December 2006
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 June 2024

Presentation of Mourilhe

Mourilhe was one of the 18 communes of Montalegre Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 117 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 22,92 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 June 2024

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