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Carcaboso (Municipality, Extremadura, Spain)

Flag of Carcaboso - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020

Presentation of Carcaboso
Flag of Carcaboso

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Presentation of Carcaboso

The municipality of Carcaboso (1,106 inhabitants in 2017; 2,030 ha; municipal website) is located 100 km north of Cáceres and 10 km of Plasencia. The municipality is made of the villages of Carcaboso and of the colony of Valderrosas (36 inh.), established in the 1960-1970s, 1 km away of Carcaboso. The colonists were farmers working in the new agricultural zone irrigated by water coming from the Valdeobispo man-made lake.

Carcaboso is named after cárcabo / cárcaba, a gorge dug by an impetuous river. The silty soil of the area favors that kind of erosion.
Megalithic tombs were excavated on the Triquiñelo Hill, close to the village. Carcaboso must have emerged in the 13th century as a dependency of the lord of Galisteo located on the road connecting Plasencia to Montehermoso.

Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020

Flag of Carcaboso

The flag of Carcaboso, adopted on 28 August 1986 by the Municipal Council and validated on 19 June 1987 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by an Order issued on 8 July 1987 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 14 July 1987 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 55, pp. 909-910 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Quadrangular, green with the municipal coat of arms in the center.

The coat of arms of Carcaboso, adopted on 28 October 1986 by the Municipal Council and validated on 23 January 1987 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by an Order issued on 8 July 1987 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 21 April 1987 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 33, p. 544 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Gules two caldrons checky or and sable in pale six snakes vert issuing from the handle, 2. Azure the letters "SPQR" or in bend. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The memoir supporting the proposed symbol was submitted on 15 August 1986 by Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Marquis de la Floresta and Chronicler of Castilla y León.
An extended search in national and local archives, as well as the consultation of the local expert Jose-Miguel Lodo de Mayoralgo, yielded the conclusion that Carcaboso never had proper symbols, which had to be designed from scratch.
The first quarter of the arms features the arms of the Manrique, recalling that Carcaboso once belonged to the Community of the Town and Land of Galisteo. This domain was granted on 2 October 1392 by King John I to Garci Fernández Manrique. The grant was confirmed to his son, Gabriel Manrique, on 3 January 1451, by John II. Carcaboso belonged to the Manrique, subsequently erected Dukes of Galisteo and Counts of Osorno, until 1811. For the second quarter, the heraldist proposed to allude either to the village's etymology by using a fess wavy or to its Roman past, by using letters "SPQR", the second proposal being eventually chosen.
[Carcaboso, estudio heráldico]

Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020