Flag of the Canary Islands
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State flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Flag ratio: 2:3
Institutional flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Flag ratio: 2:3
The flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the Coat of arms of the Canary Islands in the central band; the civil flag omits this. The designs were made official by the Statute of Autonomy of the Canarian Autonomous Community (Organic Law 10/82) on 16 August 1982.
History and meaning
The tricolour flag has its origins in the Canarias Libre movement of the 1960s. It was designed by Carmen Sarmiento and her sons Arturo and Jesus Cantero Sarmiento, and first displayed (in paper form) on 8 September 1961. It combined the blue and white colours of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Province of Canary Islands) with the blue and yellow colours of the Province of Las Palmas.
Colours
The colours of the flag as specified by the Canarian Government are the following:[1]
| Pantone | CMYK colour model | RGB colour model | Web colours | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colour | Identification | C | M | Y | K | R | G | B | HTML code |
| White* | Not specified | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 255 | 255 | 255 | #FFFFFF |
| Blue | 3005 | 100% | 35% | 0% | 0% | 7 | 104 | 169 | #0768A9 |
| Yellow | 7406 | 0% | 20% | 100% | 0% | 255 | 204 | 0 | #FFCC00 |
*Assumed to be pure white due to it not being specified exactly.
Flags of the provinces
Flag of the Province of Las Palmas
Flag of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Island flags
Flag of El Hierro
Flag of La Palma
Flag of La Gomera
Flag of Tenerife
Flag of Gran Canaria
Flag of Fuerteventura
Flag of Lanzarote
See also
References
External links
- Canary Islands at Flags of the World
- Banderas de Canarias by José Manuel Erbez.