";s:4:"text";s:5015:" 53 You can distinguish Ecuador's flag by its Coat of Arms.
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horizontally striped blue-white-blue national flag, with a brown-bordered central golden sun.
Under The flag is charged with the Ecuadorian coat of arms scaled to one-half the width of the flag and centered in the field.In the 1989 specifications issued to the Ecuadorian Military, the coat of arms has only eight colors that are used on the flag. This pledge is usually stated during national holiday or important school functions, such as graduations.As of 2006, the Ecuadoran flag still shares some similarity with the flags of Colombia and Venezuela. 51 Ecuador's national flag has three main colors.
The eight colors are yellow, blue, red (all from the national flag), sky blue, green, grey, silver and gold.Miranda ascribed the colours he chose for his flag to First he explained to me the way the iris transforms the light into the three primary colours... then he said, "Why yellow is the most warm, noble and closest to the bright light; why Blue is that mix of excitement and serenity, so far that it evokes the shadows; and why Red is the exaltation of Yellow and Blue, the synthesis, the vanishing of the bright light into the shadows".The first time the yellow, blue and red flag was flown by Miranda was in 1806 on the ship The first calls for independence from the Spanish crown came on 10 August 1809; a plain red flag was flown by the rebels.Students and military cadets in Ecuador are required to recite a pledge to the flag, known as the "Juramento a la Bandera" or "Pledge to the Flag." Author of
Meaning of the Flag The official currency of Ecuador is the United States dollar. The Ecuadorian flag is a horizontal tricolor of yellow, blue, and red, and there is the National Coat of Arms in the middle. Login Former Director, Flag Research Center, Winchester, Massachusetts. Search Britannica However, the coat of arms is only changed in the middle of the flag when it is used by government officials or by military forces.Other descriptions attribute it to the symbolism of the glory of the heroes of independence.
The Blue symbolizes independence from Spain.
Ecuador's flag consists of three horizontal bands of yellow (top, double width), blue and red with a coat of arms placed over the center of the flag.
national flag that is horizontally striped yellow-blue-red; when flown by the government, it incorporates a central coat of arms. The Yellow recalls the Federation of Greater Colombia and the red symbolizes courage.
The flag has three horizontal stripes, a blue triangle on the left hand side with a yellow star in the middle. Categories The yellow band is the size of both the blue and red band combined. The field is split into three horizontal colored bands, a yellow band of one-half the flag's width, a blue band of one-quarter the width, and a red band of one-quarter the width.
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This flag was adopted on November 7, 1900.
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This flag … Ecuador does not have an official religion, however 95% of the citizens identify as Christian.
Its width-to-length ratio is 5 to 8.The pale blue (celeste) cockades worn by patriots in May 1810, when the Spanish viceroy in Buenos Aires yielded authority to the local government, and the uniforms worn by Argentines in 1806, when…
Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. The Ecuadorian National Secretariat of Communication (The national flag has a length of 2.20 meters and a width of 1.47 m, a ratio of 2 to 3. In a decree passed in Colombia in 1934, the ratio of the stripes were set at 2:1:1 and the flag ratio was set at 2:3, similar to the present Ecuador flag.
52 Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia's flag share a huge resemblance. Later that year the number of stars was increased to seven.
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.At first a white flag with a white star on a blue canton was adopted on June 2, 1822; it was replaced on March 6, 1845, by a flag of white-blue-white vertical stripes and three white stars.
