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Povoação Municipality (Portugal)

image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Sep 2007

About the flag
Version without the coat of arms
Presentation of Povoação PVC

See also:

External links:

Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Povoação at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
Page about Povoação at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
Povoação, at the English Wikipedia
reported by António Martins, 18 Sep 2007

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About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a quartered background (town status) of yellow and green. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1939.06.16.
António Martins, 18 Sep 2007

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Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Sep 2007

The arms are Argent issuan from a campaign wavy wavy Vert and Argent a caravel Or ornamented and roped and masted and anchored Sable and dressed Argent between two maize ears Or leved Vert and on the chief a goshawk Proper holding an escutcheon Azure charged with five plates Argent set in saltire. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Povoação".
António Martins, 18 Sep 2007

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Version without the coat of arms

image by António Martins, 2010

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

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Presentation of Povoação

Povoação municipality had 6726 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 6 communes covering 110,30 km², taking up the southeastern part of St. Michael Island (São Miguel). It is part of Azores Region (also a NUTS II and traditional province), former Ponta Delgada District. "Povoação" means simply "settlement".
António Martins, 18 Sep 2007

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