Meta Department (Colombia)

Departamento de Meta

Last modified: 2024-03-02 by rob raeside
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image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 January 2008

• Overview
• Variant with seal
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Colombia
• Clickable Map of Colombia
• Colombia - Departamentos, Distrito Capital and Municipalities

Municipalities:

• Villavicencio
• Acacias
• Barranca de Upía
• Cabuyaro
• Castilla la Nueva
• Cubarral
• Cumaral (San Luis de Cubarral)
• El Calvario
• El Castillo
• El Dorado
• Fuentedeoro
• Granada
• Guamal
• La Macarena
• Lejanias
• Mapiripán
• Mesetas
• Puerto Concordia
• Puerto Gaitán
• Puerto Lleras
• Puerto Lopez
• Puerto Rico
• Restrepo
• San Carlos de Guaroa
• San Juan de Arama
• San Juanito
• San Martin
• Uribe
• Vista Hermosa

Overview

The flag was adopted by Decree Number 234, of July 2, 1970. The flag consists of 17 equal horizontal stripes starting from the top and finishing in the bottom with color green, and overlapped by white, thus making it 9 green stripes and 8 white stripes.
The Coat of Arms was created by Baronio Rojas and accepted officially by Decree Number 164, 1956. Afterwards, on December 5, 1960 the Decree Number 389 was issued, adopting the Coat of Arms with the letters DM (standing for Departamento de Meta)
Source: official website of the Government of the Department of Meta.
E.R, 3 January 2008

Variant with seal

image located by Paul Bassinson, 31 July 2023

A variant of the flag of the Meta Department with a departmental seal is seen at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Paul Bassinson, 31 July 2023

Coat of Arms

image contributed by Felipe Carrillo, 17 May 2002