Uruguay

República Oriental de Uruguay

Last modified: 2000-01-21 by antonio martins
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• National coat of arms

• Departments of Uruguay
• Historical flags:
  • Artigas flags (1813-1815)
  • Cisplatine province (1821-1828)
• Government flags
  • Naval flags
  • Army and Air Force flags
  • Police flags
• Uruguayan political parties
• House flags of Uruguayan shipping companies

• Símbolos patrios (government page about the national symbols)
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 24 Aug 1999

The arms consist of a quartered oval with blue in the first and fourth quarters and white in the second and third. There are scales for justice. The horse and ox represent liberty and plenty. There is a representation of a city on a hill. That city is Montevideo, and it symbolizes strength. The sun is the "Sun of May" first used in Argentina and is derived from its historical ties with what was then the United Provinces of the River Plata. (Sources: [smi80], [tal82] and [cra90])
Calvin Paige Herring, 13 Jun 1998

[The coat of arms shows, i.a., in the presidential flag. Ed.]

My little flag book (French translation of [ing79]) refers to the suns as «Sun of May» for Argentina and «Star of May» for Uruguay. This obviously refers to the same astrological-legendary object, but is there such a difference in Spanish official descriptions?
Tham-Tâm Lê, 16 Dec 1998

• Uruguayan coat-of-arms
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 24 Aug 1999