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São Francisco de Assis, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
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4 August 2020
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Municipality
The municipality of S�o Francisco de Assis (19,258 inhabitants in 2010;
250,130 ha) is located 485 km of Porto Alegre.
S�o Francisco de Assis is
named for the S�o Francisco de Assis fort established in 1801 on the left bank
of river Inhacund�. The settlement of the village that developed nearby was
initiated in 1809.
The municipality of S�o Francisco de Assis was established
by Law No. 1,427 promulgated on 4 January 1884, separating from S�o Vicente and
Itaqui.
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020
Symbols
A yellow flag with a broad off-centred red cross, bearing the municipal arms
in a white disk on the cross.
Dirk Schönberger,
30 March 2012
The flag and arms of S�o Francisco de Assis are prescribed by a Municipal Law
[data not available].
Article 6.
The flag of S�o Francisco de Assis,
designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro Escobar for Com�rcio
Mundial de Bandeiras Ltda, is described as follows.
Rectangular, yellow with
a red cross charged on the arm's crossing with a white circle featuring the coat
of arms described in Article 19.
Article 19.
The coat of arms of S�o
Francisco de Assis, designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro
Escobar, is described as follows.
An Iberian shield, or, with a mantle gules
cantoned in chief by two trilobate Greek crosses of the same. A bordure azure
charged with the cordon of St. Francis. The shield surmounted by an
eight-towered mural crown argent ports sable. The shield supported dexter by a
soybean plant in base a wheat spike and sinister by a maize plant in base a rive
panicle all leaved and fructed proper. A scroll gules with the toponym "S�O
FRANCISCO DE ASSIS" or.
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/795/bandeira
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/794/brasao
Municipal
website
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/somostodossaochico/photos/a.859245184179273/1931142616989519/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/somostodossaochico/photos/a.855104604593331/1886244348146013/?type=3&theater
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https://www.facebook.com/somostodossaochico/photos/a.1387557531348033/1387585921345194/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020