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![[Alta Gracia municipal flag]](../images/a/ar-x-agr19.gif) image by Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2023
image by Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2023
The Municipality of Alta Gracia is locate in Department of Santa Maria.
There are two flags that appear as the flag of Alta Gracia. One appears on 
Wikipedia, claiming to be the new flag that was adopted in 2019:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Bandera_de_Alta_Gracia.jpg 
 Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2023
Flag in 2015
![[Alta Gracia municipal flag]](../images/a/ar-x-agr15.gif) image by Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2023
image by Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2023
Another flag appears on the Banderas Argentinas blog from 2015 
https://banderasargentinas.blogspot.com/2015/11/banderas-de-ciudades-argentinas-hoy_17.html 
 Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2023
![[municipal flag]](../images/a/ar-x-bc.gif) image by Ivan Sache, 17 November 2018
image by Ivan Sache, 17 November 2018
Barrio Córdoba is located in the central and northern parts of the town of 
Alta Gracia (46,858 inhabitants in 2008), Santa María Department (Córdoba 
Province).
The flag of Barrio Córdoba was selected in a public contest 
organized by the Participar Foundation and the CESAHYCAG Center. Designed by 
Martina Fernandez Moreyra (aged 7, student of 2nd grade at San Martín school), 
the flag is vertically divided celestial blue-red-white with a white sheep in 
the red stripe.
White and red are the colors of the borough's San Lorenzo 
(supporters) club. Red and white are the colors of the borough's River 
(supporters) club.
https://www.resumendelaregion.com/barrio-core-bandera-propia 
Diario 
Resumen, 8 August 2018
Ivan Sache, 17 November 2018
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by Valentin Poposki, 29 September 2024
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by Valentin Poposki, 29 September 2024The barrio of Liniers has a flag that is horizontally 
banded red-black-blue-white-blue-black-red with the shield in the center of the 
white stripe.
 Valentin Poposki, 29 September 2024
The new flag and shield of the Liniers neighborhood were presented at the last end-of-year party of its neighborhood center. The symbols were created at the request of the institution by Silvio Fernández, president of CESAHYCAG (Argentine Heraldic Symbolism and Culture Center Alta Gracia). The Neighborhood Commission and neighbors of the neighborhood participated in the historical review.
According to Fernández, the flag is divided into seven horizontal stripes, 
which bear the colors red and black, representing the native people who 
inhabited the area and the clubs and educational institutions in the area. The 
light blue and white stripes represent the national colors. The shield of the 
Liniers neighborhood is also present in the middle of the flag.
Valentin Poposki, 
15 October 2024
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by Valentin Poposki, 29 September 2024
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by Valentin Poposki, 29 September 2024
Silvio Fernández comments on the meaning of each piece and color of the shield: 
“Quartered emblem, with the white upper quarter showing the typical espinillo 
tree of the area and the Barrio Liniers motto. In the lower quarter, it has the 
green color of nature, the brown color of the earth and mountains, and the light 
blue of the water and sky (natural reserves and Chicamtoltina and Caocamilín – 
Santa Cruz streams). The left side quarter has the black color representing the 
original Comechingon culture of the area and wheat spikes representing the work 
of the neighborhood residents and the neighborhood center. In the fourth 
quarter, on the right side, it has the red color representing the original 
Comechingon culture of the area; it also has an arrowhead with the same meaning. 
In the upper part of the shield it has the Argentine patriotic rising sun, 
representing the national values and the creator of the Argentine flag, Don 
Manuel Belgrano, in whose honor there is a small square in Barrio Liniers.”
Valentin Poposki, 15 October 2024
![[municipal flag]](../images/a/ar-x-psj.gif) image by Ivan 
Sache, 22 January 2021
 image by Ivan 
Sache, 22 January 2021
Barrio Parque San Juan is a borough of the municipality of Alta Gracia 
(Córdoba).
The flag of Barrio Parque San Juan is vertically divided old 
pink-white-brown with a bread oven in the center.
The colors were proposed by 
Sarita Cavallero, while the central symbol was designed by José Luis López.
Old pink evokes Jesus Christ, white is the color of flour, and brown refers 
to the soil.
The bread oven emphasizes the arduous work of the social bakery 
of the borough.
https://www.resumendelaregion.com/barrio-parque-san-juan-ya-hizo-flamear-su-bandera/; 
Resumen de la Region, 21 January 2021
Ivan Sache, 22 January 2021
![[municipal flag]](../images/a/ar-x-ps.gif) image by Ivan Sache, 26 January 2020
image by Ivan Sache, 26 January 2020
Portales del Sol is a borough of Alta Gracia (48,140 inhabitants in 2010), a 
 town located 40 km south-west of Córdoba.
The flag of Portales del Sol 
 is garnet red with a yellow sun having 16 green rays outlined in yellow and the 
 black outline of a gate in the center.
The flag was unveiled on 23 
 December 2019, as the result of an innovative process of participatory 
 vexillology, organized by Centro Cesahycag and Fundación Participar Santa María, 
 with the support of the Centro Vecinal (elected local authority).
The Centro 
 Vecinal invited the borough's citizens to a creativity workshop organized on 27 
 July 2019. The workshop resulted in 29 proposals.
The winning design was 
 selected on 3 August by a jury presided by Cristian Baquero Lazcano, the 
 designer of the provincial flag. Regular members were Cristina Roca, 
 representing the Centro Vecinal; two citizens, Iván Medina and Susana Cortez 
 (also a member of the Women's Council); and the journalist Juan Carlos Gamero.
 
The flag is a collective work submitted by the Peláez family (Paola, 
 Marcelo, Sofía and Gastón).
The garnet red field represents the roofs of the 
 houses composing the borough.
The sun ("sol") alludes to the name of the 
 borough. The green rays represent the borough's streets, which are all named 
 for autochthonous trees ("algarrobos", Prosopis spp.; "aromitas", 
 Acacia spp.; "chañares", Geoffroea decorticans; "espinillos", 
 Acacia caven; "jarillas"; Larrea spp.; "lapachos", Tabebuia 
 spp.; "molles", American pepper, Schinus molle; "moradillos", 
 Schinus fasciculatus; "pasionarias", Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis; 
 "quebrachos", Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco; "talas", Desert 
 hackberry, Celtis ehrenbergians).
The gate ("portal") in Jesuit 
 style also alludes to the name of the borough [and, probably so 
 straightforwardly that it was not even mentioned, to the Jesuit origin of the 
 town of Alta Gracia].
 
 https://viapais.com.ar/alta-gracia/1151085-mi-barrio-mi-bandera-llega-a-b-portales-del-sol/
 
VíaAltaGracia, 18 July 2019
 
 https://mivalle.net.ar/contenido/9233/alta-gracia-barrio-portales-del-sol-ya-tiene-la-bandera-que-le-da-identidad
 
Mi Valle, 4 August 2019
 
 https://www.resumendelaregion.com/por-primera-vez-se-izo-la-bandera-de-portales-del-sol/
 
Resumen de la Región, 23 December 2019
Ivan Sacen, 26 January 2020
![[municipal flag]](../images/a/ar-x-an.gif) image by Héctor Orlando Alfonzo and Domingo Guido Ponce, 11 November 2021
image by Héctor Orlando Alfonzo and Domingo Guido Ponce, 11 November 2021
The municipality of Anisacate (2,991 inhabitants in 2010) is located 50 km 
 south-west of Córdoba and 10 km south of Alta Gracia.
The flag of 
 Anisacate is horizontally divided celestial blue-dark blue-green, with a thin 
 white line between the two blue stripes and a white triangle placed along the 
 hoist, with a rounded-off angle and charged with a yellow sun.
The flag 
 of Anisacate was selected on 10 November 2021 among 66 proposals submitted in a 
 public contest organized by the municipality.
The flag was designed by 
 Héctor Orlando Alfonzo and Domingo Guido Ponce, from El Descanso. Alfonzo 
 explained the design as follows.
"The sun, the symbol of light and 
 warmth par excellence, could not be omitted from the design. Using an ordinary 
 representation of the sun was not relevant, since it represents the native 
 energy at the origin of Anisacate; accordingly, the sun was modeled on a 
 Comechingón pictograph.
The white triangle reflects the place's historical 
 trajectory until now, and also towards future with power and positive 
 direction. The triangle is also a symbolic representation of coherence between 
 feeling, thinking and acting in the search for a third, conciliating position 
 that would anticipate potential conflicts emerging from duality."
The 
 celestial blue stripe represents the sky, the other blue stripe represents 
 rivers, and the green stripe represents flora and fauna. The thin white stripe 
 represents "the North Road heading to our municipality".
 
 https://anisacatemunicipio.gob.ar/anisacate-ya-tiene-su-bandera 
 Municipal website, 9 November 2021
Ivan Sache, 11 November 2021