Flag of Argentina

The national flag of Argentina is, together with the coat of arms of the Argentine Republic, the Argentine national anthem and the cockade of Argentina, one of the four national symbols of that country and is based in the flag created by Manuel Belgrano, who designed it with the light blue and white colors of the national cockade. It was raised for the first time in Rosario, on February 27, 1812:

It is necessary to fly the flag and not to have it, mandela make white and celestial, according to the colors of the National Specel. I hope it's V.E. approval.

Manuel Belgrano. First Triumvirate.

The Government of the United Provinces disavowed the act. However, the banner was solemnly sworn on February 13, 1813 on the banks of the current Juramento River (current Salta province) by the Army of the North under the command of Manuel Belgrano, as part of the loyalty oath ceremony to the Sovereign General Constituent Assembly of the Year XIIl. Days later, on February 20, 1813, it flamed for the first time in combat, during the battle of Salta, as a representation of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, obtaining a total victory against the Royalist Army. The definitive design of the official flag was established by the Congress of Tucumán on July 26, 1816.

Description

Stripes

There are three stripes of 1:1:1 proportions, the lower and upper ones being light blue and the central one white.

Sun

In the center of the flag, in the white stripe, there is a sun, called Sol de Mayo or Inca Sol, which is yellow with a brown border. It has 32 rays, 16 straight and 16 symmetrically wavy.

On August 16, 1985, Law 23,208 on Patriotic Symbols eliminated the existence of the two flags and decreed that the only Argentine flag is the one with the sun. This is how today the Inca sun shines in the center of the flag wherever it is waving.

Law 23,208 also establishes the right to use it as the Official Flag of the Nation for the national government, provincial governments, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, municipalities and communes, official departments, individuals and civil institutions.

Finally, on the occasion of the celebrations of the bicentennial of the May Revolution, Decree 1650/2010 set its measurements, fabric characteristics, colors and accessories, that is, the parameters to which all copies of use must conform. official.

Design Rules

Argentine flag waving in the mast of Casa Rosada.

Between 2002 and 2004, a series of IRAM regulations established the characteristics of the Argentine flags, including their colors. By Presidential Decree No. 1650 of November 23, 2010 (the year of the Bicentennial of Argentina) the norm for the design and colors of the Argentine flag previously established by the four IRAM norms established between 2002 and 2004 was made official, this decree It agrees with that of 1944 that established the flag created by Manuel Belgrano as the Argentine National Flag. Thus, the design of the Argentine flag is standardized by the following IRAM standards:

• IRAM-DEF D 7679: 2002 Bandera Argentina de ceremonia: features
• IRAM-DEF D 7677: 2002 Bandera Argentina de izar: features
• IRAM-DEF D 7675: 2003 Bandera Argentina de ceremonia: accessories
• IRAM-DEF D 7674: 2004 Flag Argentina: characteristics of its condition

Based on the original and traditional designs, it is officially established that the Argentine flag for ceremonial use or the one flown in official establishments must be 1.40 m long and 0.90 m high (that is, a proportion of 9/14), the diameter of the sun is 5/6 of the height of the white stripe. The figurative face of the sun is 2/5 of its height.

Such proportions correspond to those used with reference to the mast: the Argentine flag has a width that is at least 1/5 of the height of the mast, and a length of 1.6 times its width (according to the golden ratio). The width of each of the three stripes is 1/3 of the total width. The diameter of the sun is (width/9) x 2.5 and the face of the sun is 1/9 of the total width of the flag.

The official colors are cerulean (sky blue) for the upper and lower stripes, white for the central stripe, golden yellow for the sun, and chestnut for the dark details on the sun's face. These colors are set in CIELab coordinates. The following table shows these colors assimilated to RGB and Pantone:

Symbolism of the colors in the flag

The meaning of the colors of the flag is disputed. Some opinions hold that white represents silver (alluding to the poetic name of the territory: Argentina), while the light blue stripes may represent the sky or the waters of the Río de la Plata. Others consider that the colors represent the mantle of the Virgin Mary, in her dedication to the Immaculate Conception, or the Coat of Arms of Buenos Aires.

The truth is that it was expressly inspired by the cockade created days before and that it wore the light blue and white colors of the Spanish House of Bourbon, in turn taken from the mantle of the Immaculate Conception. The patriot troops, in effect, claimed their fidelity to the absent king.

As for the sun in the center, added by the Congress of Tucumán, and used until the second half of the 20th century only in the main or war flag, it represents the Inti of the Incas, the Andean solar god. This vindicated the disappeared Tahuantinsuyu, seen by the patriots as an antecedent of his freedom, and was related to the project of crowning a descendant of the Incas as sovereign of the United Provinces.

History

Argentine scarapela.

Background

Tradition considers that the Argentine cockade arose, at least, between May 23 and 25, 1810. On those dates of the May Revolution, the patriots called "chisperos" (derogatory nickname given by the royalists who wanted to continue subservient to Spain), whose most notorious bosses were Domingo French and Antonio Luis Beruti, distributed tapes among the adherents of the liberation. There are those who suppose that they were white with the figure of the deposed king, and light blue and white like the colors that identify, even today, the Bourbon dynasty, recognized among supporters of a monarchy limited by a constitutional charter and a parliament. (constitutional or liberal monarchy).

Scarapelas used in the first years of the United Provinces of Sud.

In 1812, the troops under the command of Manuel Belgrano began to wear a two-tone light blue and white cockade. Belgrano himself expressed in an official report that he did not use red "to avoid confusion", since the royalist armies (that is, those opposed to independence) used that color. On February 13, 1812, Belgrano proposed to the government the adoption of a national cockade for soldiers and ten days later he adopted it, after on February 18, 1812 the Junta declared the red cockade abolished and recognized the white and light blue one.

This will be the color of the new currency with which the defenders of the Homeland will march

Manuel Belgrano, 13 February 1812

Just four years later, on July 20, 1816, the Congress of Tucumán definitively consecrated the light blue and white pavilion.

The flag

Manuel Belgrano.

On February 27, 1812, Belgrano established two artillery batteries on both banks of the Paraná River, close to the then small town known as Villa del Rosario (the current city of Rosario). On that same date, around 6:30 p.m., and in a solemn ceremony, Belgrano arranged for a flag of his creation to be raised for the first time (presumably with two horizontal stripes, the upper one white and the lower one light blue). ^{[citation required]} Tradition indicates that the first flag raised by Belgrano was made by a neighbor from Rosario named María Catalina Echevarría de Vidal and who also had the honor of raising it at the City of Rosario next to General Belgrano. In this city is the National Historical Monument to the Flag, located in the Parque Nacional a la Bandera.

Homeland soldiers! At this point we have had the glory of dressing the national beetle that our H.E. has appointed. Government: in that, the battery of the "Independence", our weapons will increase theirs; we swear to defeat our inner and outer enemies, and South America will be the temple of Independence and Freedom. In faith that you will judge him, say with me "Live the Father!"

The National Government prohibited General Belgrano from using it on March 3, 1812, for reasons of international politics, ordering him to conceal it secretly and to replace it with the one used in the Buenos Aires Fortress (the rojigualda). As Belgrano left for the north to take charge of the Army of the North, he did not take notice of the order to discard the flag. After advancing to San Salvador de Jujuy, on May 25, 1812 he celebrated the second anniversary of the May Revolution with a Te Deum in the main church, during which canon Juan Ignacio Gorriti blessed it. On May 29, Belgrano informed the government:

(...) the people were pleased with the sign that already distinguishes us from other nations (...)

The Triumvirate admonished Belgrano for this on June 27, 1812, who replied on July 18 saying:

I will keep it quietly to fly it when there is a great triumph of our weapons.

On July 24, he handed it over to the Jujuy Cabildo. The triumph was obtained by himself on September 24, 1812 in the battle of Tucumán.

In January 1813, Belgrano made another flag again, which was accepted by the Assembly of the Year XIII when it began its deliberations on January 31, 1813, as long as it was only used as the flag of the Army of the North, and not of the state.

On February 13, 1813, after crossing the Pasaje River (since then also called Juramento), the Army of the North swore an oath of obedience to the sovereignty of the Assembly of the Year XIII.

In keeping with what our Excellency commands me on the 1st day of the current, I proceeded this day to give the recognition and competent oath of obedience to the sovereign representation of the National Assembly under the respectful solemnity of the weapons to my command, and according to the formula that V.E. prescribes me. The act I believe was one of the most solemn ones that have been celebrated throughout the time of our happy revolution. The Army flag was led by Major General D. Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, whom we carried in the midst of Colonel Don Martín Rodríguez and I escorted from a farmer company that marched to the music lion. Forming the Army in painting, he stood in the middle of the General Major with the flag, proclaimed the army, announcing the new one that motivated that act, and I read out the circular office of V.E. and attached form. I immediately pressed, on my part, the oath to the presence of the troops, and under the prescribed formula, to the Major General, who executed it in the same way before me. Then the colonels and commanders of the army continued and, after the oath of these, I questioned under the same formula all the individuals who formed the painting, who, with their expressions and the joy of their countenances, manifested the sincerity of their promises and the joy that he had caused in all, the attainment of their just desires. Afterwards, the Major General, his sword on the cross with the flagpole, all the troops in defiled, were kissing it from one in one, and finished this act, he returned the same Major General with the flag to the place of my lodging to the head of all the bodies, which followed him with the music. I cannot express to V.E. what has been the rejoicing of the troops and other individuals who follow this army: a reciprocal congratulation of all for being already clothed with the character of free men, and the most ardent and repeated protests of dying before becoming slaves, have been the common expressions with which they have celebrated so happy new and that they must strengthen the hopes of cementing, very soon, the great civil building.

Recently this event has been recognized as momentous by historians:

... [L]o that occurred on February 13, 1813 possesses greater significance because this is the moment when the national flag is born, in fact, uninterruptedly bound in the future and expressly recognized by the Congress of Tucumán as the only teaching of the Argentines.... that ceremony of February 13, 1813 on the banks of the Pasaje consisted in the solemn and definitive incorporation to the Army of the North of the flag

On February 20, 1813, the Battle of Salta was fought, in which Belgrano achieved a complete victory. This is the first battle that was presided over by the light blue and white flag, as the flag of the Army of the North. After the battle of Salta, the flag was placed on the balcony of the Cabildo by Eustoquio Díaz Vélez and the trophies seized from the royalists located in the Chapter House.

Díaz Vélez, appointed military governor of the Municipality of Salta del Tucumán, was the first Salta authority to use the light blue and white flag.

It is good to remember that Eustoquio Díaz Vélez will then expose her in the lobby to demonstrate that the nation that was being gestated was definitively installed in the today northwest Argentine.

It was used during the Second Helping Expedition to Upper Peru until the battle of Ayohúma on November 13, 1813.

The flag was officially adopted as a symbol of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata on July 20 or July 25, 1816 by the General Constituent Congress of San Miguel de Tucumán. It is the same Congress that had proclaimed Argentine Independence on July 9, 1816. Deputies representing Tarija and other areas in northern Argentina, present-day Bolivia, participated in said Congress. In that session, the use of the flag created by Manuel Belgrano as the only flag of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata was confirmed. This flag is the one that the Argentine Republic received as an inheritance.

The first Argentine flag consisted of a light blue box sewn to a white box of the same size (the measurements are imprecise, since these flags were made by soldiers in service in sometimes adverse circumstances that did not allow them to take so much time to make them). a badge). It gradually changed to the design of horizontal stripes because sometimes the flags were disproportionate in size and had to be raised in different ways.

Sun of May

Sun of May in the first currency of the Rio de la Plata

Later, in 1818, the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Juan Martín de Pueyrredón defined the main flag, including the Sun of May (or Inca Sun), which represents the May Revolution -gestated in the cloudy and rainy day carried out in the city of Buenos Aires, on May 25, 1810, in which the sun appeared at its zenith, beginning the process of independence of the Viceroyalty of the Río de La Plata from the Kingdom of Spain- and to the Inca sun god, Inti, who is a figurative sun with a human face, yellow gold in color with thirty-two rays: 16 flaming rays pointing or "rotating" clockwise, and 16 straight ones placed alternately, according to the design of the first Argentine coin -the gold coin of eight escudos and the silver coin of eight reales- which was approved by the Law of the Constituent General Assembly of April 13, 1813. This design of the sun was due to the Peruvian goldsmith Juan de Dios Rivera (nicknamed "El Inca", since he was a descendant of a ñusta), who adopted the symbol of the Inti or Sun Inca as emblematic of the Argentine nation. Manuel Belgrano accepted this addition. This sun appears in the center of the flag which had the color based on a darker blue.

Flag of Macha, adopted as the provincial flag of Tucumán

First design

The original design (consisting of two white horizontal stripes at the ends and a light blue stripe in the middle) was made by María Catalina Echevarría, an Argentinean of Basque origin born in Rosario on April 1, 1782, under the supervision of Manuel Belgrano. The artisan task was carried out during the course of 5 days, in which the cloths were sewn using golden threads. An example of the original design —although without the sun— of the Argentine flag are the two found in the parish church of the currently Bolivian town of Macha. Such flags date from the end of 1812 and were used by the patriotic troops directly commanded by Belgrano. One of them (which has remained in Bolivia) has a light blue central stripe and the other two are white. The other is already practically the same design as the one adopted by José Artigas (although without the punched festoon), that is, the one that, already with the sun, was established in 1818. The colors of the Macha flags are actually white and sky blue, although faded by the action of time and climate.

Other flags

National Flag of Our Civil Freedom, donated by Belgrano to the lobby of Jujuy.

Flag of the Army of Los Andes (replication, original: 1817).

On May 25, 1813, General Manuel Belgrano donated to the people of Jujuy a flag with the coat of arms of the Assembly of the Year XIII: the National Flag of Our Civil Liberty. In the donation document, Belgrano established that the flag was created by him and that he donated it to the town of Jujuy

to preserve it with the honor and courage that the worthy children of this city and their jurisdiction that had served in my company in the actions of 24 September and 20 February last.

This has caused a misunderstanding, since for a time it was assumed that it was the first Argentine national flag. On November 29, 1994, Provincial Law No. 4816 was sanctioned, which designated this flag as the Flag of the Province of Jujuy.

On April 29, 2015, National Law 27134 was enacted, which recognized the National Flag of Our Civil Liberty as a Historical Patriotic Symbol. Article 6 of this law stipulates:

The Argentine Nation acknowledges with gratitude the efforts of the people of the province of Jujuy, who fully fulfilled the Belarusian legacy, thus preserving the banner that the procer entrusted to him on the historic day of May 25, 1813.

For his part, in 1817 José de San Martín, inspired by Belgrano, had the so-called Bandera de Los Andes made for the Army of the Andes, created to continue with the emancipatory campaign, whose design is the one adopted by the province of Mendoza for his flag.

Flag of Artigas used by the Free Peoples League

Federal flag

José Gervasio Artigas, the first champion of River Plate federalism, adopted the flag of Manuel Belgrano, so that in the proto-congress of Argentine independence held in 1815 in the Entre Ríos city of Concepción del Uruguay (called the Eastern Congress), the Liga Federal (or Union of Free Peoples) declared the flag of the league to the one created by Belgrano, with the addition of a diagonal festoon (the emblematic color of Argentine federalism). That flag is the current flag of the province of Entre Ríos and one of the national symbols of Uruguay, the Artigas flag, although both currently differ in color intensity, blue being the one used. in Uruguay and light blue the one used in Entre Ríos, also differing in the width of the red stripe.

In the 1930s, a law established the color of the celestial stripes: "like the color of the sky when it begins to dawn", but, despite the federalist constitution —predominating even in governments the faction "unitarian"—it was interpreted that such color was the faded light blue (used by the "unitarians") that still appears today in some representations of the Argentine flag, although The original sky blue indicated by Manuel Belgrano has tended and tends to prevail.

Despite the dispersion regarding the colors of the flag, a 1944 decree finally established that the Argentine flag had the colors "blue and white".

In August 1985, the Argentine parliament enacted a law requiring the Sol de Mayo (also called the "Sol de Guerra") to appear on all Argentine flags. This means that the flag with the sun is no longer exclusive to official organizations, ships and buildings of the Armed Forces. An individual can access a flag with the sun, as well as private companies (banks, shopping malls, racetracks, etc.). Before this law, "the flag with sun" It was only used in official institutions, which is why many people continue to mistakenly believe that there are two different types of flags, one military and the other civil. The use of the flag, without sun, is currently left to decorate the facades of buildings, vehicles and shops.

On the occasion of the death of Manuel Belgrano on June 20, 1820, said date has been established as Flag Day in commemoration of the hero.

Unification of the Argentine flag in 1985

For decades in Argentina two flags were used simultaneously. A light blue and white flag with the sun in its center called "Official Flag of the Nation", called "war flag", used only by the State; while private individuals and institutions had to use another flag, a light blue and white one but without the sun, called the "civil flag", sometimes creating confusion about who and on what occasion should fly one or the other.

This situation in the use of the Argentine flag began in April 1944, with decree no. 10302/1944, of the de facto president Edelmiro J. Farrell. The text of article 3 of the decree said: "The Federal Government, the Governments of Provinces and Governorates have the right to use the Official Flag. Individuals will only use the national colors in the form of a flag, without the sun, a cockade or a banner, always paying them due respect. Making it clear that individuals could only use the national colors in the form of a flag, which is not the same as being able to use the flag.

In 1985 a national law was enacted under the government of President Raúl Alfonsín, 23,208, which unified the use of the national banner, and in the month of August the "celestial and white with sun" flag remained as the only National flag, for use by all Argentines. This law determines who has the right to use the official flag of the Nation. Article 1 establishes: «The Federal Government, the Provincial Governments and the National Territory of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands have the right to use the Official Flag of the Nation, as well as individuals, should always be given the due respect and honor."

Pledges to the flag

For the soldiers

The oath to the flag is a military vow alluding to national sovereignty whose text is as follows:

You swore to the Homeland, keep your flag constantly and defend it until you lose your life.

Yes, I swear!

Whoever takes the oath / Soldier

For schoolchildren

Version 1

Students, the White Flag and the celestial Flag has never been tied to the triumphal chariot of any victor of the earth. Students, that glorious Flag represents the Argentinean nation. You promise to pay your most sincere and respectful homage, to love her with immense love and to train, from the dawn of life, a fervent and unbeatable worship in your hearts; to prepare yourselves from school to practice in your time, with all purity and honesty, the noble virtues inherent in citizenship, to study with determination the history of our country and that of its great luminous benefactors also in order to follow its generous footsteps.
In one word: do you promise what is in the measures of your forces that the Argentine Flag forever flames on our walls and fortresses, on top of the masts of our ships and at the head of our legions and for the honor to be their breath, the glory their aureola, the justice their company?

Yes, I promise!

Whoever takes the oath / Student

Version 2

Students, this is the Flag that Manuel Belgrano created at the dawn of our freedom, symbolizes the Argentine Republic, our Homeland. Students, it is the symbol of our free sovereignty, which makes men and women and all the peoples of the world sacred. It calls for the exercise of our duties and rights, to respect laws and institutions. It is the expression of our history forged with the hope and effort of millions of men and women, who were born on our land and those who came to populate it under our banner and our Constitution. It represents our land and our seas, our rivers and forests, our plains and mountains, the effort of its inhabitants its dreams and achievements. It symbolizes our present, in which, day by day, we must build the democracy that ennobles us, and conquer the knowledge that liberates us; and our future, that of our children and that of the successive generations of Argentina.
Students, do they promise to defend it, respect it and love it, with fraternal tolerance and respect, studying with firm will, committing themselves to being free and righteous citizens, accepting in solidarity in their differences all those who populate our soil and transmitting, in each and every one of our acts, their permanent and irrenunciable values?

Yes, I promise!

Whoever takes the oath / Student

Hymns to the flag

Dawn

High in the sky, a warrior eagle,

bold soars in triumphant flight,

blue a wing the color of the sky,

blue a wing the color of the sea.

So in the high radiant dawn,

arrowhead the golden face mimics,

and forms a trail to the purple neck,

The wing is cloth, the eagle is flag.

It is the flag of my homeland,

of the sun born that God has given me;

It is the flag of my homeland,

of the sun born that God has given me.

Lyrics: Hector Panizza

Music: Hector Panizza

Salute to the flag

Hail Argentina, blue and white flag,

a strip of heaven where the sun rules;

you, the most noble, the most glorious and holy,

the firmament gave you its color.

I salute you, flag of my country,

sublime banner of freedom and honor,

swearing to love you, as well as defending you,

while my faithful heart beats.

Lyrics: Leopoldo Corretjer

Music: Leopoldo Corretjer

My flag

The song "My flag", often called "Hymn to the flag", was composed by Juan Imbroisi, with lyrics by Juan Chassaing. In turn, in all school events, it is heard as an environment to receive the national flag and the corresponding provincial flag, together with the flag bearers and escorts.

Here is the idolized flag,

The banner that Belgrano bequeathed to us,

when the enslaved homeland is sad

with courage he broke his ties.

Here is the splendorous flag

who admired the world with his triumphs,

when proud in the fight and victorious

he climbed the top of the Andes.

Here is the flag that one day

in battle he trembled triumphantly,

and full of pride and bravado

He went immortal to San Lorenzo.

Here it is, like the shining sky,

displaying sublime majesty,

after having crossed the continent,

exclaiming in his wake: Freedom!

Freedom! Freedom!

Lyrics: John Chassaing

Music: Juan Imbroisi

Historical flags of Argentina

Between 1812 and 1813, Manuel Belgrano created various flag designs, but it has not been definitively established which was the first. A model with colors inverted from the current ones, that is, the light blue stripe in the middle of two white ones, could be the first, currently kept in the Casa de la Libertad Museum in Sucre, Bolivia. The two-color flag with two vertical stripes, which is said to have been used by Belgrano, was later used by the Army of the Andes.

Flag	Date of adoption	Date of disuse	Notes
	25 May 1810	26 July 1816	Flag used by the United Provinces as part of the "Made of Fernando VII".
	27 February 1812	1812	Flag by Belgrano in Rosario in 1812.
	1812	20 February 1813	Flag used by Belgrano in 1813. It is one of the two flags of Macha and is also the flag of the Province of Tucumán since 13 April 2010.
	20 February 1813 (unofficial) 26 July 1816 (official)	26 July 1816 25 February 1818	First flag approved by the United Provinces in 1816.
	1818	1819	Added the Sun of May
	25 February 1818	1820	The color becomes blue-celeste "in the mode and shape until now accustomed",
	1820	1829	The flag regains its celestial color.
	1829	13 April 1836	Juan Manuel de Rosas decides to darken the blue color of the flag in an attempt to differentiate it from the flag of the Unitarian Party.
	13 April 1836	1850	Flag of the Argentine Confederation.
	1850	1862	Flag of the Argentine Confederation.
	1862	Present	The current flag of the Argentine Republic is adopted

Other flags

National flags

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  Argentine presidential flag, used since 1904.

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  Argentina's most used presidential flag.

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  Argentine Navy bow pavilion.

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  Line of the Argentine Naval Aviation

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  Variation of the Argentine Naval Aviation Line

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  Flag of the Argentine National Gendarmerie

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  Flag of the Argentine Naval Prefecture, used since 1924

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  Variation of the Argentine Naval Prefecture, a little darker.

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  Flag of Civil Freedom, created on 25 May 1813 by General Manuel Belgrano and handed over to the Jewish people in recognition of the value shown in the battles of Tucumán and Salta

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  Proposal of Flag of Argentinian Patagonia

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  Flag Proposal for the Navy (never made) known as Bandera de Pueyrredón

Provincial flags

The provinces that make up the Argentine Republic have their own flags. The oldest correspond to the provinces of the Litoral that supported the federal cause during the Civil Wars, later, the other provinces created their own banners and currently there are 23 provincial flags. The current Oriental Republic of Uruguay, currently an independent state, was part of the United Provinces from 1810 to 1828 and used three different flags in that period.

Provincial historical flags

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  Corrientes Flag (1814)

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  Corrientes Flag (1815-1821)

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  Corrientes Flag (1820-1821)

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  Flag of the Eastern Province (1815)

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  Flag of the Eastern Province (1815-1817)

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  Flag of the Eastern Province (1825-1828)

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  Cordoba flag (1815)

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  Cordoba flag (1815-1825)

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  Cordoba flag (2010-2014)

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  Flag of Missions (1815-1827)

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  Flag of Santa Fe (1815-1819)

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  Flag of Santa Fe (1819-1821)

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  Flag of Santa Fe (1821-1825)

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  Flag of Entre Ríos (1833-1853)

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  Tucumán flag (1995-2008)

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  Flag of San Juan (1997-2018)

Provincial flags in force

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  Flag of Buenos Aires

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  Flag of Catamarca

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  Flag of the Chaco

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  Flag of Chubut

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  Flag of Córdoba

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  Corrientes Flag

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  Flag of Entre Ríos

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  Flag of Formosa

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  Flag of Jujuy

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  Flag of La Pampa

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  Flag of La Rioja

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  Flag of Mendoza

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  Flag of Missions

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  Flag of the Neuquén

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  Flag of Río Negro

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  Flag of Salta

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  Flag of San Juan

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  Flag of San Luis

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  Flag of Santa Cruz

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  Flag of Santa Fe

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  Flag of Santiago del Estero

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  Flag of Tierra de Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands

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  Tucumán flag

Flag of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

Flag of the City of Buenos Aires

The City of Buenos Aires is not a province nor does it belong to any other, although it was the main city of the province of Buenos Aires, until 1880, the year in which it was federalized to serve as capital. Since 1994, it has a regime of "autonomous government" with its own legislative and jurisdictional powers, of constitutional rank.

On September 28, 1995, the official flag of the city was established as the one made up of white cloth with in the center the shield created by Juan de Garay in 1580, made up of a crowned black eagle, with four eaglets and a red cross in his right claw, known as Cruz de Calatrava. Its proportions are 9:14 (1.4 meters long by 0.90 meters high), with the shield being centrally located.

Flags inspired by Argentina's

Central America

The flag of the United Provinces of Central America was raised for the first time in the fight for independence against Spain on July 4, 1818, when the privateer of French origin Louis-Michel Aury, commanding a Colombian flotilla proclaimed the first independent Central American state on islands off the east coast of Nicaragua. This banner had the colors of the Argentine flag, but with a different shield in the center. In 1822 the Salvadoran general Manuel José Arce, who opposed the annexation of Central America by the Mexican Empire, asked his wife María Felipa Aranzamendi and her sister Manuela Antonia to make a flag with the colors white and light blue in homage to the flag that was planted as a symbol of freedom on the Central American coasts. This flag was blessed on February 20, 1822, and flown during the numerous battles it carried out against the imperial troops.

Previously, the flag of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata had already flown on the Pacific coast of Central America between March and April 1819, during the privateering expedition of the frigate La Argentina, under the command of Hipólito Bouchard.

From the flag created by Arce, derive the other flags of the independent states of Central America.

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  Flag of the United Provinces of the Centre of America (1823-1824).

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  Flag of the Federal Republic of Central America (1824-1839).

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  Flag of the Free State of Costa Rica (1842-1848).

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  Flag of Honduras since 1949.

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  Flag of Guatemala since 1968.

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  Flag of Nicaragua since 1971.

Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Flag of Uruguay since 1830

First National Pavilion of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay between 1828 and 1830.

The national flag of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay was adopted by law of the Constituent and Legislative General Assembly on December 18, 1828 and modified in 1830. It consists of four horizontal stripes of equal size on a white background, and a Sun de Mayo with sixteen rays, eight straight and eight alternating flaming, in the upper left corner. The stripes represent the nine original departments that made up the country at the time of its independence and the colors are inspired by those of the Argentine flag. The other two flags of the Republic, namely the Bandera de Artigas and the Bandera de los Treinta y Tres, used when the Republic was part of the United Provinces, also base their colors on the ensign created by Manuel Belgrano.

Flag of the Thirty-three East

Flag of Artigas

The national flag in the center, the flag of Artigas and the flag of the Treinta and Tres in Plaza Independencia, Montevideo.