Argentina’s province flags

Twenty-three provinces and the capital city, most of them flying some version of the national sky blue and white: suns, laurels, gears, an albatross and a monkey puzzle tree.

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Argentina is a federation of 23 provinces plus the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, and every one has its own flag. Many are recent: several provinces had none until the late twentieth century and picked theirs by public contest.

The national flag’s sky blue and white run through most of them, and so does its Sun of May. That makes the set hard: half a dozen flags are blue and white stripes with an emblem in the middle, and the emblem is the thing to learn.

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The capital and the big province

Buenos Aires City
White, with the city’s old coat of arms: a crowned black eagle holding a red cross, over smaller eagles. Buenos Aires City is not part of Buenos Aires Province; it governs itself.
Buenos Aires
Blue over green, split by a thin red line, with a sun inside a blue gear and a green laurel wreath.

Blue and white stripes, with something in the middle

Learn these by the emblem, because the stripes won’t help.

La Pampa
Blue, white, blue, with a small coat of arms showing a tree and a rider on horseback.
San Juan
Blue, white, blue, with a larger coat of arms in a gold frame under a sun.
Tucumán
Argentina’s stripes turned inside out: white, blue, white, and no emblem at all. Independence was declared in Tucumán in 1816.
Corrientes
Blue, white, blue, with a blue triangle at the hoist. The white band reads “Patria · Libertad · Constitución” either side of the coat of arms.
Mendoza
White over blue, with Argentina’s own coat of arms (a red cap on a pike and two clasped hands) in a laurel wreath under the sun. It recalls the flag of San Martín’s Army of the Andes, which set out from Mendoza.
Jujuy
White, with Argentina’s coat of arms in the middle. This is the Flag of Civil Liberty, which Manuel Belgrano gave to the people of Jujuy during the war of independence.
San Luis
White, with a coat of arms in a laurel wreath: two deer under brown mountains and a rising sun.

Bands and diagonals

Entre Ríos
Blue, white, blue, with a red band running corner to corner. It is the flag of José Artigas’s Federal League, which Entre Ríos belonged to.
La Rioja
White over blue, crossed by a red diagonal, with a laurel wreath in the middle.
Córdoba
Three vertical bands, dark red, white and sky blue, with a sun in the middle.
Santa Fe
Red, white and blue in vertical bands. A gold ring in the middle reads “Provincia Invencible de Santafe” around crossed arrows and a spear.
Chaco
Green and sky blue bands either side of a white one, which holds a sun over a plough in a ring of gold stars.
Santiago del Estero
Blue, white and red bands with a blazing sun in the red square, a cross standing in it.
Catamarca
A yellow border around blue and white over red, with a sun between two laurel branches.
Río Negro
Blue, white and green stripes, with a black corner full of white stars.
Misiones
Red, dark blue and white stripes, and nothing else.
Salta
Deep red between two black stripes, with a white star on blue in a gold ring of stars. Red and black are the colours of the Salta poncho.

Pictures

Neuquén
Blue, white, blue, with a monkey puzzle tree (the araucaria, or pehuén, of Neuquén’s forests) in a ring of stars.
Formosa
Sky blue, with a white triangle hanging from the top edge and a line of green dashes running through a small ring of gold stars.
Chubut
White mountain peaks and white waves on sky blue, and in the middle a blue gear around an ear of wheat, under yellow rays.
Santa Cruz
A snowy peak against a rising sun, a few white stars in a blue sky behind it, over dark blue and white waves.
Tierra del Fuego
Orange and blue, split by a white albatross in flight, with the Southern Cross in the blue.

On the globe

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