This article is about the state pin. For a list of Argentine flags, see List of Argentine flags National flag
The flag of Argentina is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue and white. There are multiple interpretations on the reasons for those colors. The sag was created by Manuel Belgrano, in production line with the creation of the Cockade of Argentina, and was first raised at the city of Rosario on February 27, 1812, during the Argentine War of Independence. The National Flag Memorial was late built on the site. The first Triumvirate did not approve the use of the iris, but the Asamblea del Año XIII allowed the function of the flag as a war flag. It was the Congress of Tucumán which ultimately designated it as the national pin, in 1816. A yellow Sun of May was added to the center in 1818. The full iris featuring the sun is called the Official Ceremonial Flag ( spanish : Bandera Oficial de Ceremonia ). The ease up without the sun is considered the cosmetic Flag ( Bandera de Ornato ). While both versions are equally considered the national flag, the ornamental version must constantly be hoisted below the Official Ceremony Flag. In vexillological terms, the Official Ceremonial Flag is the civil, express and war flag and national flag, while the cosmetic Flag is an option civil pin and ensign. There is controversy of the true color of the beginning flag between historians and the descendants of Manuel Belgrano between blue sky and picket amobarbital sodium.

It is the One of Five Flags that use the Ratio 5:8, The Others being Guatemala, Palau, Poland, and Sweden .

history [edit ]

The flag of Argentina was created by Manuel Belgrano during the Argentine War of Independence. While in Rosario he noticed that both the cavalier and patriotic forces were using the like colors, Spain ‘s jaundiced and crimson. After realizing this, Belgrano created the Cockade of Argentina, which was approved by the First Triumvirate on February 18, 1812. Encouraged by this success, he created a flag of the lapp colors nine days late. It used the colors that were used by the Criollos during the May Revolution in 1810. however, recent research and studies would indicate that the colors were chosen from the spanish Order of Charles III symbolizing the allegiance to the rightful, and then prisoner King Ferdinand VII of Spain. Most portraits about the creation or first uses of the flag show the modern design of it, but the masthead of Macha, a very early plan kept at the House of Freedom in Sucre, Bolivia was alternatively a vertical triband with two white bands and a light blasphemous one in the center. [ 1 ] The flag was first flown for soldiers to swear allegiance to it on 27 February 1812, by personnel of the Batería Libertad ( Liberty Battery ), by the Paraná River. On that day, Belgrano said the postdate words :

Soldiers of the Fatherland, we have heretofore had the glory of wearing the national cockade ; there ( pointing to the Independence battery ), on the Independence Battery, where our government has recently had the respect of bestowing it upon, shall our weapons enlarge their glory. Let us swear to defeat our enemies, home and external, and South America will become the temple of Independence and Freedom. In will that you so swear it, say with me : LONG LIVE THE FATHERLAND! ( after the oath ) “ Captain, sir, and troops chosen for the first meter for the Independence Battery : go, take possession of it and fulfill the oath you have fair sworn nowadays. ” [ 2 ]

Belgrano dispatched a letter addressed to the First Triumvirate, informing them of the newly created flag. however, unlike with the cockade, the Triumvirate did not accept the consumption of the flag : policy at the meter was to department of state that the government was ruling on behalf of King Ferdinand VII of Spain who was prisoner of Napoleon, whereas the creation of a sag was a acquit independentist act. frankincense, the triumvirate sent a warn to Belgrano not to fight under the flag, but by the time the reply had arrived, Belgrano had moved to the union, following the former orders that requested him to strengthen the patriotic position in the Upper Peru after the get the better of of Juan José Castelli at the Battle of Huaqui. meanwhile, the flag was hoisted for the first clock in Buenos Aires atop the Church of Saint Nicholas of Bari on August 23, 1812 ; where nowadays the Obelisk of Buenos Aires is located. hush not knowing about the Triumvirate ‘s refusal, Belgrano raised the flag at San Salvador de Jujuy and had it blessed by the local anesthetic church on the second anniversary of the May Revolution. Belgrano accepted the orders from the Triumvirate by time they arrived to Salta and ceased using the flag. As soldiers had already made oaths to the new flag, Belgrano said that he was saving it for the circumstance of a big victory .
The First Triumvirate was late replaced by the Second Triumvirate, with a more liberal ideology, who called the Asamblea del Año XIII. Despite being one of its original goals, it did not declare independence, and thus did not approve the habit of a home flag either ; however, the masthead made by Belgrano was authorized to be used as a war flag. The first base oath to the newly approved sag was on February 13, 1813, following to the Salado River, which became known as the “ Río Juramento “ ( “ Oath River ” ). The beginning struggle crusade with the approved flag was the Battle of Salta, a critical patriotic victory that achieved the complete get the better of of cavalier Pío Tristán. The flag would be last declared the national sag by the Congress of Tucumán on July 20, 1816, soon after the declaration of independence. The marriage proposal was made by the deputy Juan José Paso and the text written by the deputy of Charcas, José Serrano. On February 25, 1818, the Congress ( nowadays working at Buenos Aires ) included the Sun of May in the war flag, after the marriage proposal of deputy Chorroarín. The sun was copied after the one that the foremost Argentine coin featured in 1813. It was subsequently decided to keep it as depart of the regular flag afterwards, and thus the sun nobelium longer represents war .
The Argentine flag flying for the first clock time over a coastal battery on the shores of the Paraná, 27 February 1812 José de San Martín was mindful of the newfangled ease up, but did not employ it during the cross of the Andes in 1817. Being a joint operation of both Argentine and Chilean forces, he thought that a newfangled flag would be a better estimate than using either the Argentine or the chilean ease up. This led to the creation of the Flag of the Andes, used in the cross. This pin is presently used as a provincial flag by Mendoza province. On June 8, 1938, president of the united states Roberto Ortiz sanctioned national law no. 12,361 declaring June 20 “ Flag Day “, a national vacation. The date was decided as the anniversary of Belgrano ‘s death in 1820. In 1957 the National Flag Memorial ( a 10,000 m2 monumental complex ) was inaugurated in Rosario to commemorate the universe of the ease up, and the official Flag Day ceremonies have customarily been conducted in its vicinity since then. In 1978 it was specified, among early measurements, that the Official Ceremony Flag should be 1.4 meters wide and 0.9 meters high, and that the sun must be embroidered. According to the Decree 10,302/1944 the article 2 stated that the Official Flag of the Nation is the ease up with sunlight, approved by the “ Congress of Tucumán ”, reunited in Buenos Aires on 25 February 1818. The article 3 stated that the flag with the sunday in its center is to be used entirely by the Federal and Provincial Governments ; while individuals and institutions use a sag without the sunlight. [ 3 ] In 1985 the Law 23,208 repealed the article 3 of the Decree 10,302/1944, saying that the Federal and Provincial Governments, arsenic well as individuals have the right to use the official Flag of the Nation. [ 4 ]

Historical flags [edit ]

design [edit ]

democratic belief attributes the colors to those of the sky, cloud and the sun ; some anthems to the flag like “ Aurora ” or “ salute to the sag ” state indeed vitamin a well. however, historians normally disregard this idea, and attribute them to loyalty towards the House of Bourbon. [ citation needed ] After the May Revolution, the first base times of the Argentine War of Independence, the Triumvirate claimed to be acting on behalf of the spanish King Ferdinand VII, who was prisoner of Napoleon Bonaparte during the Peninsular War. Whether such loyalty was real or a antic to conceal independentism is a subject of dispute. The creation of a new flag with those colors would have been then a way to denote autonomy, while keeping the relations with the captive king alive. [ citation needed ]

supreme headquarters allied powers europe and size [edit ]

From 1978, the flag ‘s official proportions are 9:14, and its official size is 0.9 by 1.4 meters. It features three stripes alternating flip blasphemous, white and flip blue. Each stripe is 30 centimeters senior high school. [ citation needed ] In the focus on stripe there is an emblem known as the Sun of May ( spanish : Sol de Mayo ), a golden sunlight. historian Diego Abad de Santillán claimed that the Sun of May was a representation of the Inca sun god Inti. [ 14 ] Flags with proportions of 1:2 and 2:3 are besides in habit. [ citation needed ]

Colors [edit ]

The colors are formally defined using the CIE 1976 standard :

Scheme

Sky blue

Yellow

Brown

CIE (L*, a*, b*)

67.27, -6.88, -32.23

74.97, 29.22, 81.58

44.53, 27.16, 22.48

*Black and white are as normal. *Source: http://manuelbelgrano.gov.ar/bandera/normas-iram/
The surveil are given for computer, textile, print and fictile use :
Flag of Argentina.svg Colors scheme

Sky blue

Yellow

Brown

RGB
Hexadecimal

116, 172, 223
#74ACDF

246, 180, 14
#F6B40E

133, 52, 10
#85340A

Pantone (textile)

16-4132 TC

14-1064 TC

18-1441 TC

Pantone (print)

284 C / 284 U

1235 C / 116 U

483 C / 483 U

Pantone (plastic)

Q 300-4-1

Q 030-2-1

Q 120-2-4

Number

75AADB

FCBF49

843511

*Source: ibid.

The spanish give voice celeste ( sky blue ) is used to describe the color of the blue stripes. [ citation needed ]

Sun of May [edit ]

The sun is called the Sun of May because it is a replica of an engraving on the first Argentine coin, approved in 1813, whose rate was eight escudos ( one Spanish dollar ). It has 16 true and 16 curl sunbeams. [ citation needed ]

In 1978 the sun color was specified to be golden yellow ( amarillo oro ), to have an inner diameter of 10 centimeter, and an outer diameter of 25 centimeter ( the diameter of the sun equals 5⁄6 the stature of the white stripe. The sunlight ‘s grimace is 2⁄5 of its altitude ). It features 32 rays, alternately wavy and neat, and from 1978 it must be embroidered in the “ official Flag Ceremony ”. [ citation needed ]

influence of the Argentine flag [edit ]

The french privateer Louis-Michel Aury used the Argentine sag as a model for the blue-white-blue flag of the first independent state in Central America, which was created 1818 in Isla de Providencia, an island off the east slide of Nicaragua. This department of state existed until approximately 1821, before the Gran Colombia took over control of these islands. reasonably late ( 1823 ) this ease up was again used as the model for the flag of the United Provinces of Central America, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] a confederation of the current cardinal american states of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which existed from 1823 to 1838. After the dissolving of the Union, the five countries became independent, but even today all of these states except Costa Rica use flags of blue-white-blue stripes ( the Costa Rican flag has a compound bolshevik stripe on the white one, added to incorporate all the colors of the french flag ), besides the sun in the Flag of the Philippines is the Sun of May. The Argentine flag besides inspired the flags of Uruguay and Paraguay .

current flags of Central and South american countries [edit ]

Anthems to the pin [edit ]

Aurora ( Sunrise ) [edit ]

Alta en elevated railway cielo, united nations águila guerrera
Audaz se eleva en vuelo triunfal.
Azul united nations ala del color del cielo,
Azul united nations ala del color del mar.

Así en el alta aurora irradial.
Punta de flecha el áureo rostro imita.
Y forma estela elevation purpurado cuello.
El ala einsteinium paño, el águila es bandera.

Es lanthanum bandera de la patria mía,
del sol nacido que me ha dado Dios.
Es la bandera de la Patria Mía,
del sol nacido que me ha dado Dios .
senior high school in the flip, a warrior eagle
rises audacious in its triumphal flight
One fly is blue, sky-colored ;
one wing is blue, sea-colored.

In the high beaming aurora
its aureate face resembles the tip of an arrow.
And its purple nape leaves a wake island.
The wing is cloth, the eagle is a ease up.

It is the flag of the Fatherland of mine
that God gave me, born of the sun.
It is the flag of the Fatherland of mine
that God gave me, born of the sun .

Lyrics by Luigi Illica and Héctor Cipriano Quesada, music by Héctor Panizza, it is spill the beans during sag raising ceremonies .

Saludo a lanthanum bandera ( Salutation to the Flag ) [edit ]

Salve, argentina
bandera azul y blanca.
Jirón del cielo
en donde impera elevation Sol.
Tú, louisiana más baronial,
la más gloriosa y santa claus,
el firmamento su color tellurium dio.

Yo tellurium saludo,
bandera de mi Patria,
sublime enseña
de libertad y respect.
Jurando amarte,
como así defenderte,
mientras palpite mile fiel corazón .
Hail, Argentina
blue and white flag.
Shred of the flip
where the Sun reign.
You, the most noble,
the most glorious and holy place,
the heavens gave its coloring material to you.

I salute you,
flag of my fatherland,
sublime national flag
of freedom and honor.
Swearing to love you,
american samoa well as to defend you,
for a hanker as my faithful heart beats .

Mi Bandera ( My Flag ) [edit ]

Aquí está la bandera idolatrada,
la enseña que Belgrano no legó,
cuando triste la Patria esclavizada
con heroism sus vínculos rompió.

Aquí está louisiana bandera esplendorosa
que alabama mundo victimize sus triunfos admiró,
cuando altiva en la lucha y victoriosa
la cima de los Andes escaló.

Aquí está la bandera que united nations día
en la batalla tremoló triunfal
yttrium, llena de orgullo y bizarría,
a San Lorenzo se dirigió inmortal.

Aquí está, como elevation cielo refulgente,
ostentando sublime majestad,
después de haber cruzado elevation Continente,
exclamando a su paso : ¡Libertad !
¡Libertad ! ¡Libertad !
here is the adored flag,
the flag that Belgrano left to us,
when the sad enslaved Homeland
bravely broke its bonds.

here is the splendorous iris
that surprised the global with its victory,
when arrogant and victoriously during the battles
the top of the Andes it has climbed.

here is the masthead that one sidereal day
triumphantly rose in the center of the battle
and, full of pride and heroism,
to San Lorenzo it went immortal.

here it is, like the shining flip,
showing rarefy stateliness
after having crossed the celibate
shouting in its manner : “ exemption ! ”
” freedom ! exemption ! ”

pledge to the flag [edit ]

As Flag Day is celebrated on June 20, the follow pledge is recited to students nationally on this day by their respective school principals or grade floor advisers. In large towns where students are gathered en masse, the pledge is taken by the local town or city administrator, preceded by words of advice and honor to the memory of its godhead, Manuel Belgrano, using the comply or alike formulas :

variant 1 [edit ]

Summons:
Niños/Alumnos, la Bandera blanca y celeste—Dios sea loado—no ha sido atada jamás al carro triunfal de ningún vencedor de la tierra.
Niños/Alumnos, esa Bandera gloriosa representa a la Patria de los Argentinos. Prometáis rendirle vuestro más sincero y respetuoso homenaje, quererla con amor inmenso y formarle, desde la aurora de la vida un culto fervoroso e imborrable en vuestros corazones; preparándoos desde la escuela para practicar a su tiempo, con toda pureza y honestidad, las nobles virtudes inherentes a la ciudadanía, estudiar con empeño la historia de nuestro país y la de sus grandes benefactores a fin de seguir sus huellas luminosas y a fin también de honrar la Bandera y de que no se amortigüe jamás en vuestras almas el delicado y generoso sentimiento de amor a la Patria. En una palabra: ¿prometéis lo que esté en las medidas de vuestras fuerzas que la Bandera Argentina flamee por siempre sobra nuestras murallas y fortalezas, en lo alto de los mástiles de nuestras naves y a la cabeza de nuestras legiones y para que el honor sea su aliento, la gloria su aureola, la justicia su empresa?
Response: ¡Sí, prometo![18]
Summons:
Children/Students, the white and sky-blue flag, God be praised, has never been carried in the triumphal carts of any victors of this Earth.
Children/Students, this glorious Flag represents the Fatherland of the Argentines. I ask you all to promise to produce your most sincere and respectful homage, to love it and form it with immense love, from the dawn of the life a fervent and indelible cult in your hearts; preparing yourselves from the school to practice to its time, with all purity and honesty, the noble virtues inherent in citizenship, studying with determination the history of our country and that of its big benefactors in order to continue its luminous traces and to end also of honoring the Flag and of which there should never get depressed in your souls the delicate and generous love feeling to the Fatherland. In one word: do you promise that what should be in the measurements of your forces that the Flag of Argentina flames forever exceeds our walls and fortitude, on top of the masts of our ships and at the head of our legions and so that the honor should be its breath, the glory its aurora, the justice its company?
Response: Yes, I promise!
(standing to attention and extending the right arm towards the flag)

Versions of this include references to Belgrano and to all who fought for the area during the Argentine War of Independence and other wars that followed .

variant 2 [edit ]

Summons:
Niños/Alumnos, esta es la Bandera que creó Manuel Belgrano en los albores de nuestra libertad, simboliza a la República Argentina, nuestra Patria.
Es el símbolo de nuestra libre soberanía, que hace sagrados a los hombres y mujeres y a todos los pueblos del mundo. Convoca el ejercicio de nuestros deberes y nuestros derechos, a respetar las leyes y las instituciones. Es la expresión de nuestra historia forjada con la esperanza y el esfuerzo de millones de hombres y mujeres, los que nacieron en nuestra tierra y los que vinieron a poblarla al amparo de nuestra bandera y nuestra Constitución.
Representa nuestra tierra y nuestros mares, nuestros ríos y bosques, nuestros llanos y montañas, el esfuerzo de sus habitantes, sus sueños y realizaciones. Simboliza nuestro presente, en el que, día a día, debemos construir la democracia que nos ennoblece, y conquistar el conocimiento que nos libera; y nuestro futuro, el de nuestros hijos y el de las sucesivas generaciones de argentinos.
Niños/Alumnos, ¿prometen defenderla, respetarla y amarla, con fraterna tolerancia y respeto, estudiando con firme voluntad, comprometiéndose a ser ciudadanos libres y justos, aceptando solidariamente en sus diferencias a todos los que pueblan nuestro suelo y transmitiendo, en todos y cada uno de nuestros actos, sus valores permanentes e irrenunciables?
Response: Sí, prometo![19]
Summons:
Children/Students, this is the Flag that Manuel Belgrano created at the dawn of our freedom; the symbol of our fatherland, the Argentine Republic.
It is the symbol of our free sovereignty, which renders sacred the men and women and all the peoples of the world. It calls on us to exercise our duties and our rights, to respect our nation’s laws and institutions. It is the expression of our history forged with the hope and the efforts of millions of men and women, those who were born in our land and those who came to settle it under our flag and our Constitution.
It represents our land and our seas, our rivers and forests, our plains and mountains, the efforts of its inhabitants, their dreams and achievements. It symbolizes our present, in which, day by day, we must build the democracy that ennobles us and conquer the knowledge that frees us, as well as our future, that of our children and the successive generations of Argentines.
Children/Students, do you promise to defend, respect, and love it, with fraternal tolerance and respect, studying with determination, committing to be free and honest citizens, accepting in solidarity the diversity of all those who inhabit our lands, and passing on these permanent and irrevocable values in everything you do?
Response: Yes, I promise!
(standing to attention and extending the right arm towards the flag)

The Glorious Reveille may be sounded by a military or a march band at this point, and confetti may be showered upon the students. In the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and civil uniform services the pledge is like but with a unlike rule and reply of ¡Si, juro! ( Yes, I pledge! )

Military/police version [edit ]

Summons:
¿Juráis a la Patria seguir constantemente su bandera y defenderla hasta perder la vida?
Response: ¡Sí, juro![20]
Summons:
Do you therefore pledge to the Fatherland constantly to follow its flag and defend it even at the cost of your lives?
Response: Yes, I pledge!

In the Argentine Federal Police, the words y su Constitución Nacional ( and its Constitution ) may be inserted .

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

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