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image by Ivan Sache,
4 August 2020
The municipality of Santo Antônio do Planalto (2,059 inhabitants; 20,651 ha)
is located 230 km north-west of Porto Alegre.
Santo Antônio do Planalto
was established in 1916 in Fazenda Santo Antônio, a domain sold by Fimino Rolim
de Moura to Alcides and Fábio Albuquerque, who designed plots and sold them to
colonists. Jorge Muller, considered as the town's founder, offered a plot to
build a church, a school and a cemetery.
Santo Antônio was elevated to the
6th district of Carasinho by Municipal Law No. 4 promulgated on 8 September
1956. The municipality of Santo Antônio do Planalto was established by State Law
No. 9,550 promulgated on 20 March 1992 and inaugurated on 1 January 1993.
http://www.santoantoniodoplanalto.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020
An ascending east-west diagonal tricolour, light blue-yellow-green, with the municipal
arms in the centre.
Dirk Schönberger,
27 March 2012
The flag and arms of Santo Antônio de Planalto are prescribed by Municipal
Law No. 61 promulgated on 15 September 1993.
Article 5.
I. The flag
shall be composed of three panels with the blue, green and yellow colors, in
usual shades, blue and green forming right-angled triangles and yellow an
ascending stripe between the two triangles.
II. The coat of arms of Santo
Antônio de Planalto shall be inserted, serigraphed or embroidered, in the center
of the yellow stripe.
III. The two sides of the flag shall be printed or
embroidered, mirroring each other.
IV. The yellow stripe shall run [...]
Article 9.
I. The coat of arms is composed of a Portuguese shield,
tierced [...], on the upper field argent (white) two araucaria species vert
(green), a book and a paper roll all white; in the central triangle, on a field
vert, a farmer argent; in the lower field or a kettle sable (black) and a mate
calabash and straw proper. The shield supported dexter by a soybean plant
fructed vert and sinister by wheat spikes or. Beneath the shield a scroll azure
(blue) charged with the writing "20 - 03 - SANTO ANTÔNIO DO PLANALTO 1992". The
shield surmounted by a four-towered mural crown or.
http://www.santoantoniodoplanalto.rs.gov.br/simbolos
Municipal website
image from the municipal website:
http://www.santoantoniodoplanalto.rs.gov.br/simbolos
Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020