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![[Flag of Diamantino, MT (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-mt-041.gif)
image by
Dirk Schönberger, 23 November 2010
Source:
http://www.diamantino.mt.gov.br/Bandeira
Horizontally divided green-yellow-blue-yellow-green, 1-1-4-1-1, and in the middle blue stripe four white stars arranged in 1-2-1 in the middle, and one smaller white star to the lower fly.
Official website at
http://www.diamantino.mt.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 23 November 2010
The municipality of Diamantino (19,903 inhabitants in 2004; 7,764 sq. km) is
located in the north of Mato Grosso, 200 km of Cuiabá.
The watershed between the basins of Amazon and Río de la Plata, a plateau known
as Chapada dos Parecis, is located on the municipal territory.
The
diamond mines that gave the name of the municipality were discovered on 18
September 1728 (date of the official claim) by Gabriel Antunes Maciel, only nine
years after the discovery of the gold mines of Cuiabá by Paschoal Moreira Cabral
and Miguel Sutil. The settlement that developed on the confluence of Cold and
Diamond Rivers was made on 23 November 1820 the town of Vila de Nossa Senhora
da Conceição do Alto Paraguai Diamantino. On 16 July 1918, the town was
made by State Law No. 772 a "cidade" renamed Diamantino (correcting the
early, erroneous belief that Diamond River was connected to River Paraguai).
The flag is blue with two thin horizontal stripes, green and yellow,
on top and bottom, and the five white stars of the Southern Cross in the
middle.
Green represents the resources in agriculture and cattle
breeding, the two water basins of South America (Amazone and Río de la Plata)
and navigation on the Paraguai. Yellow represents gold and diamond.
Blue represents the pure environment and the tropical sky charged with the
white stars.
Ivan Sache, 24 November 2010
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