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Flag of the Hispanicity
Bandera de la Hispanidad
Proportion1:2
Adopted12 October 1932; 91 years ago (1932-10-12)
DesignA white banner with three purple crosses pattée and the Sun of May rising from behind the center one.
Designed byÁngel Camblor

The flag of the Hispanic People (Spanish: Bandera de la Hispanidad, flag of the Hispanicity) is an ethnic flag used to represent the Hispanic people or Hispanic community.

Symbolism

The Flag of the Hispanicity displays a white background with three purple crosses and a rising sun.

History

The flag was designed by Ángel Camblor, a captain of the Uruguayan Army. He was the winner of a contest organized by Juana de Ibarbourou in 1932. The flag was first raised in Montevideo, at the Independence Square, on 12 October 1932.

The flag was formerly known as "Flag of the Hispanic race" (Spanish: Bandera de la raza hispánica).

Alternative use as the Flag of the Americas

Alternative version of the flag used to represent The Americas

The flag is also sometimes occasionally alternately used to represent the entire geographical area of The Americas and not just as an flag of the Hispanic American people.[2][3] The flag was officially adopted as the Flag of the Americas—in this usage representing, besides Hispanic Americans, also Anglo-Americans, Franco-Americans (the Québécois, Haitians, Guadeloupians, Martininqians, and French Guianians), Luso-Americans, Dutch Americans (the inhabitants of the Dutch Antilles and Suriname), and Greenlanders—by all member countries of the Pan-American Conference at their Seventh Assembly in 1933.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cervera, César (2020-07-21). "La bandera olvidada que representa a toda la Hispanidad" [The forgotten flag that represents all of the Hispanicity]. ABC (in Spanish). ISSN 1695-2936. Archived from the original on 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  2. ^ Grosvenor, Gilbert; Showalter, William J. (September 1934). "Flags of the World". The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. 66, no. 3. pp. 361, 364, 367. ISSN 0027-9358. OCLC 643483454. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Internet Archive. This flag, with its three wine-colored crosses and its sun of the Incas, was hoisted on October 12, 1932 in the Plaza Independencia in Montevideo. It was officially recognized and dedicated by supreme decree by the governments of Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia and Peru. All of the nations of the Americas hoisted it shortly thereafter.
  3. ^ Harden, Zachary, ed. (2021-08-27). "Flag of the Race". Flags of the World. Archived from the original on 2021-10-14. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  4. ^ "Bandera de las Américas (Séptima Conferencia Internacional Americana, Montevideo – 1933)" [Flag of the Americas (Seventh International American Conference, Montevideo – 1933)]. Derecho Internacional (in Spanish). 2013-01-29. Archived from the original on 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
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