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Castro Urdiales (Municipality, Cantabria, Spain)

Flag of Castro Urdiales - Image by Blas Delgado, 12 November 2011

Flag of Castro Urdiales
Submunicipal entity of Oriñón
Club Náutico de Castro Urdiales

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Flag of Castro Urdiales

The flag of Castro Urdiales (photo), as seen in August 2000 on the Town Hall and somewhere else, is green with a white saltire couped, that is, not reaching the flag's corners. The cuts on the saltire's ends are vertical. On the flag's centre is the town's coat of arms.

Santiago Dotor, 8 September 2000

Submunicipal entity of Oriñón

Flag of Oriñón - Image by Ivan Sache, 9 April 2013

The village of Oriñón (175 inhabitants in 2008) is located on ria Oriñón, formed by the estuary of river Agúera in the Bay of Biscay (locally known as the Cantabrian Sea), 15 km fro the town of Castro Urdiales and 90 km from Santander.

The flag of Oriñón, adopted on 26 September 2012 by the Village Council, is prescribed by Decree No. 10, adopted on 21 March 2013 by the Government Council of Cantabria and published on 3 April 2013 in the official gazette of Cantabria, No. 62, p. 10,922 (text ).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag:The flag is a rectangular panel, in proportions 2:3, horizontally divided in the middle, the upper part red and the lower part again horizontally divided in the middle, white over blue.

The coat of arms of Oriñón, adopted on 26 September 2012 by the Village Council, is prescribed by Decree No.11, adopted on 21 March 2013 by the Government Council of Cantabria and published on 3 April 2013 in the official gazette of Cantabria, No. 62, p. 10,923 (text ).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Gules a boat or over waves [argent and azure] ensigned by two keys or per saltire. The shield surmounted by a Royal Spanish crown.

The symbols, designed by Juan José González, were approved on 18 January 2013 by the Royal Academy of History.

Ivan Sache, 9 April 2013

Club Náutico de Castro Urdiales

Burgee of Club Náutico de Castro Urdiales, left, current design, right, former design - Images by Eduardo Panizo & José Carlos Alegria, 30 August 1999

The original burgee flown in 1954, when the club was established, is made of the register flag of the Santander Maritime Province (later, the flag of Cantabria), horizontally divided white-red, charged with a green cross at the flag's third to the mast; the cross is derived from the Cross of Burgundy, of traditional use in Spanish vexillology.
The current burgee, adopted in 2002, has a yellow border, and the municipal arms of Castro Urdiales in canton.
[Information kindly provided by Luis San Miguel Alberdi, President of Club Náutico de Castro Urdiales.]

José Carlos Alegria, 30 August 1999

Unidentified flag - Image by Eduardo Panizo, 8 September 2000

I saw in August 2000 at the yacht club a green flag with a very light yellow saltire throughout.

Santiago Dotor, 8 September 2000