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National and State Flag
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National flag of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela adopted on 7March 2006 by the National Assembly during the Government of PresidentHugo Chávez Frias and published on 9 March 2006 in the OfficialGazette No. 394
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"Civil" Flag
image byZoltán Horváth, 17 December 2024
Official Name:Bolivarian Republic ofVenezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela)
Capital:Caracas
Location:South America
Government Type:Federal Republic
Flag adopted:12March 2006
ISO Code:VE
See also:
FromAgence France Presse, November 13, 1999 :
"Venezuela changes name to "Bolivarian Republicof Venezuela"
Venezuela's Constitutional Assembly on Friday approved a namechange for the country, which in the future will be called theBolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the name change was anessential part of his "revolutionary project" to changethe country's constitution.
"Bolivarian" refers to revolutionary figure andnational heroSimon Bolivar.
Members of a style commission agreed the text of the name change,although it has not yet been decided when the name change wouldgo into effect. "
David Fowler , 14 November 1999
Venezuela has, if the people give a YES vote to thisConstitutional change and a new name: República Bolivariana deVenezuela. However, the flag will remain the same.
Guillermo Aveledo ,14 November 1999
at <www.ucab.edu.ve> (defunct) one finds:
"Our flag is made up of three horizontal stripes of equalwidth. Yellow stands for the richness of the territory, bluefor the sea separating us from Spain and red for the blood shedby our patriots during the Independence [War].
Our national flag was brought by General Francisco de Miranda inhis second expedition on March 12th, 1806 into "Vela deCoro" ; this is why the Flag Day is held on March 12th. Itwas recognised as national standard by Congress on July 15th,1811 and was firstly hoisted as such on July 14th thatyear."
Santiago Dotor, 30 December 1998
Coro, which is the oldest city in the mainland of Venezuela,is directly on the shoreline. A lookout post was placed north ofthe city, and was named "La Vela de Coro", literally"The watch over Coro". The Spanish word"vela" can both mean sail and vigil. This later is thecorrect sense of this word, the place where the vigil, the watch,took place.
Ricardo Kowalski, 15 September 1999
Flags in Venezuela are made in a very informal, quite craftyway. As far as I know, There isn't any official guideline orchart for the construction of the national flag, so there areflags with smaller stars, narrower arches, longer stripes,different colours. In the current constitution, it says, about theflag, that this is the tricolor of yellow, blue and red.
Plain and simple. Not much further explanation is set in the lawof National Symbols.
Guillermo Tell,5 November 1999
No official shades have been issued with regard to either thestripes or the arms, and no recommendations for the arms aregiven in any official source. However, the UK FlagInstitute give yellow PMS 109C, blue PMS 280C and red 032C, BR20:Yellow, red PMS 186C and blue PMS 280C, and the Album desPavillons yellow 116C, blue 286C and red 186C.
Christopher Southworth, 4 March 2005
Translated from From <www.asambleanacional.gov.ve>:
"Article 3. The National Flag is inspired by the flagadopted by the Congress of the Republic in 1811. Itconsists of the colors yellow, blue and red, in united, equal andhorizontal stripes, in the preceding order from top to bottom,and, in the midst of the blue stripe, eight five-pointed whitestars placed in an upwardly convex arc of a circle. The NationalFlag used by the Presidency of the Republic and by the NationalArmed Forces, as well as those hoisted upon national, state, andmunicipal public buildings, shall include the Coat of Arms of theBolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the edge of the yellow stripenear the hoist. The National Flag used by the Merchantmarine shall bear only the eight stars.
Eugene Ipavec, 9 March 2006
The 2006 Flags are based on drawings available at <www.asambleanacional.gov.ve>.
Pascal Gross, 13
"Miranda gave at least two sources of inspiration for his flag. In a letterwritten to Count Semyon Vorontsov in 1792, Miranda stated that the colors werebased on a theory of primary colors given to him by the German writer andphilosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Miranda described a late-nightconversation he had with Goethe at a party in Weimar during the winter of 1785.Fascinated with Miranda's account of his exploits in the United StatesRevolutionary War and his travels throughout the Americas and Europe, Goethetold him that, "Your destiny is to create in your land a place where primarycolors are not distorted." He proceeded to clarify what he meant by this:
First he explained to me the way the iris transforms light into the threeprimary colors [匽 then he proved to me why yellow is the most warm, noble andclosest to [white] light; why blue is that mix of excitement and serenity, adistance that evokes shadows; and why red is the exaltation of yellow and blue,the synthesis, the vanishing of light into shadow. It is not that the world ismade of yellows, blues and reds; it is that in this manner, as if in an infinitecombination of these three colors, we human beings see it. [匽 A country [Goetheconcluded] starts out from a name and a flag, and it then becomes them, just asa man fulfils his destiny."
Daniel Aarhus, 23 July 2013
Very interesting writing. I've heard and read the story behind Miranda'screation of the first tricolor flag of Venezuela (which would, in turn, beadopted by Colombia and Ecuador as their national colors). However I hadn'theard the full story, so I believe it should be added to the Venezuelan,Colombian andEcuadorian pagesrespectively, as they all share the same flag.
Esteban Rivera, 04 August 2013
The protocol manual for theLondon 2012 Olympics(Flags and Anthems ManualLondon 2012 [loc12]) provides recommendationsfor national flag designs. EachNOCwas sent an image of the flag, including thePMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produceda 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs maynot be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly whattheNOCbelieved the flag to be.
For Venezuela: PMS 102 yellow, 293 blue, 032 red, 355 green and black. Thevertical flag is simply the horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
The 'Law on the National Flag, National Anthem and Coat of Arms of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela' issued on 09 March 2006 defines the flag and gives illustrations but there is no any color specification:venezuela.justia.com
TheFlag Manual - Beijing 2008 gives Pantone colors: PMS 032 (red), PMS 109 (yellow), PMS 125 (dark yellow), PMS 300 (blue), and PMS 355 (green).
The Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] (Corr. No. 5.) gives approximate colors in Pantone and CMYK systems:
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By decree signed on 3 July 1963, President of the Republic ofVenezuela Rómulo Betancourt prescribed the 12th March as theFlag Day (Día de la Bandera).
This Day commemorates 12 March 1806, when Miranda hoisted for thefirst time the flag of freedom on the vessel "Leandro",in the bay of Jacmel in Haiti, and Miranda's first revolutionaryexpedition. This Day has to be historically consideredwith 3 August 1806, the day Miranda hoisted the flag for thefirst time on the territory of Venezuela, and on Sunday 14 July1811, the day when Prudencio and José María, thesons José María España, hoisted for the first time on thegreat square of Caracas the Tricolor flag selected by theConstituent Assembly (Congreso Constituyente).
Source:Rafael Marrón González, Venezolanidad -Venezuela en mil preguntas (LXXXVIII)"Correodel Caroní", 12 November 2005.
The 1806 events are described with more details onVenezuela - Historical Flags.
Ivan Sache, 20 November 2005
On 21 August 2006, the Council of the Ministers of Venezuelaapproved the Decree prescribing the change of the National FlagDay from the 12 March for the 3 August. The change was requiredby President of the Republic Hugo Chávez, in order to celebratethe national flag on the day when Francisco de Miranda hoistedthe national tricolor flag on the Venezuelan land for the firsttime, on 3 August 1806.
Source:ElUniversal, 22 August 2006.
Ivan Sache, 4 September 2006
Seeherephoto of erroneousVenezuelan flag, with stars upside down. Other flag visible onphoto are flag ofLara state andPalavecino municipality.
Aleksandar Nemet, 10 February 2010
The 2010 Miss Universe contest, held on 23 August in Las Vegas (USA), causeda big fuss in Venezuela. During the ceremony, Stefania Fernández, Miss Universe2009, "abandoned" her crown and waved her national flag. Everyone in Venezuelaimmediately noticed that the flag had seven stars, that is, matched the flagused until 2006 and changed for the flag with eight star upon request byPresident Chávez. The "blunder" was perceived as a political message and asupport to the opposition, since general elections were scheduled one monthlater. Ironically enough, Stefania Fernández appeared one year before in the2009 Miss Universe gala wearing a red dress, which was perceived by some as asupport to Chávez.
Photo and video:http://venezuelatina.com/2010/08/29/miss-univers-et-les-sept-etoiles/
Ivan Sache, 12 May 2012
On 13 May 2012, fans of car races watched on TV Pastor Maldonado winning theF1 Spanish Grand Prix, ran on the Circuit of Catalunya, Barcelona. The first winever in F1 by a pilot from Venezuela was celebrated with a flag blunder; duringthe medal ceremony, the flag of Venezuela raised over the stand had seveninstead of eight stars. The blunder caused a great stir, especially inVenezuela, so that the FIA issued a press release acknowledging the blunder andpromising it won't happen again.
Photo:http://www.laverdad.com/deportes/2308-la-fia-se-disculpa-por-bandera-de-siete-estrellas.html
Ivan Sache, 22 May 2012
A few days ago, the Palestinian government named a street in Ramallah afterHugo Chavez (a great supporter of theirs). A Venezuelan flag was hung from thestreet sign, perhaps only for the ceremony, but, ironically for an eventhonoring Chavez, it seems to have been the seven-star version. (Probably pulledout of storage.)
Nachum Lamm, 22 June 2013
located by William Garrison
fromabcnews.com of 28 August 2024
An anti-government protest flag resembling the national flag of Venezuela but with the words "VENEZUELA" on the top yellow stripe, "LIBRE"on the middle blue stripe [also looks like "100% " at the far right on the blue stripe) and "DEMOCRATICA" on the bottom red stripe; c. 28 Aug. 2024]
