Last modified: 2025-03-15 by daniel rentería
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It appears Coyame del Sotol does not use a municipal flag.
Daniel Rentería, 23 February 2025
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Designed by the architect Humberto Murillo Lozano and approved by the council on 14 December 1989. Description according to Héraldica Municipal de Chihuahua:
This coat of arms imposed in Spanish field, is cut and sliced producing four occupied sections by the following blazons from above to bottom and left to right [sic]: The effigy of the indisputable vanquisher of the Apaches: the Colonel Joaquin Terrazas y Quezada, the Franciscan symbol (the five sores of Christ), the Cross of the Apaches and a northern revolutionary, over the bordure appears 2 clouds representing hope that it has the water of rain, 2 heads [of corn], 2 seeds of bean representing agriculture [at the bottom] and some stems of wax candle [on the left and right sides], enmarking the shield appears leaves of agave representing principally the sotol from which the drink of the origin of the same name is extracted. The year 1715 makes allusion to the foundation of Coyame by the Major Sargent Juan A. de Trasviña y Retes, the coat of arms appears crowned by a ribbon where the original name Santiago de Coyame goes...The actual name of the municipal seat is Santiago de Coyame del Sotol.
In the upper border is the name "COYAME CHIHUAHUA", with the code 08 for the state to the left and the code 015 to the right as given by INEGI for statistical purposes.
Daniel Rentería, 23 February 2025
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