Coat of arms of the Department of La Guajira
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The Coat of arms of the Department of La Guajira (Spanish: Escudo del departamento de La Guajira) is the coat of arms of the Colombian Department of La Guajira. The seal was crated after a public contest won by an individual who asked for his name not to be disclosed but with the pseudonym "Angel Cuervo". The coat of arms was adopted by ordinance 28 of November 29, 1966. It has been modified since then in two occasions; Ordinance 052 of 1994 and 009 of March 10, 1998.
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[edit] Design
The coat of arms of the Department of La Guajira is formed by four quarters sections within a green vertically set rectangle, with slightly rounded bottom corners. It is surrounded by silver white pearls, which symbolizes the peninsula and the pearl banks found in its coast on the Caribbean sea.
[edit] Top left quarter
The top left quarter has a green background and a golden castle. The castle presents open windows and doors which symbolizes; fraternity among the people from La Guajira and towards foreigners.
[edit] Top right quarter
the top right quarter with a white background shows a vertically placed sword with the cutting edge facing up and crossed by two arrows horizontally; top arrow pointing to the left and bottom arrow facing to the right. The sword meaning justice on the hands of the conquerors who once penetrated the Guajira Peninsula and the arrows represent the indigenous peoples in the region.
[edit] Bottom left quarter
The lower left quarter has a white background with two mountains in natural color and a cactus representing the two natural subregions of La Guajira; the northern and southern Guajira.
[edit] Bottom right quarter
The bottom right quarter has a green background occupied by a golden raising sun meaning that in the Department of La Guajira there are no jungles and that the region's weather is warm.
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[edit] External links
- (Spanish) La Guajira coat of arms
