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![[Flag of Congonhinhas, PR (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-pr-082.gif) image by Ivan Sache, 1 February 2022
 image by Ivan Sache, 1 February 2022 
The municipality of Congonhinhas (8,857 inhabitants in 2020; 53,696 ha) is 
located 400 km north-west of Curitiba.
Congonhinhas was established in 
1926 by José Domingues da Costa, José Carlos de Oliveira, Joaquim Luiz de 
Oliveira, João Canedo da Silva and Eugenia Domingues da Costa, who erected a 
wooden chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Apparition. The town's name is the 
diminutive form of "congonha", a plant locally used as a substitute to yerba 
mate.
http://congonhinhas.pr.gov.br/ 
Municipal website
The flag of 
Congonhinhas is blue with a yellow-red-yellow horizontal stripe cantonned by two 
white fleurs-de-lis and a white triangle placed along the hoist, charged with 
the municipal coat of arms.
Photos
http://www.congoticias.net/2015/03/hasteamento-das-bandeiras-na-praca.html
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradecongonhinhas/photos/1097079450484414 
Ivan Sache, 1 February 2022