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Flag of Mohedas de Granadilla - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 March 2020
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The municipality of Mohedas de Granadilla (836 inhabitants in 2019 vs. 1;395 in 1970; 6,900 ha; municipal website) is located 110 km north of Cáceres and 40 km north-west of Plasencia.
Mohedas de Granadilla is named for the Arab word mogueida, a place covered with rockroses" and Granadilla, for long the capital of the district.
Mohedas de Granadilla was probably reconquered, together with Granadilla, in 1160 by King Ferdinand II. Re-settled by Galician colonists, Mohedas was a hamlet of Granadilla, first mentioned in 1492 on a map of the Franciscan province of Extremadura as the seat of a convent and chapel.
The municipality of Granadilla, deemed "without sufficient population and income" in the aftrmath of the building of the Gabriel and Galán dam, was suppressed by Decree No. 1,347, issued on 6 May 1965 by the Spanish Government and published on 29 May 1965 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 128, p. 7,741 (text). Its territory was transfered to Zarza de Granadilla, except the plots located right of river Alagón, which were transferred to Mohedas. The territorial claims issued by the municipalities of La Pesga and Abadía were turned down.
Ivan Sache, 21 March 2020
The flag and arms of Mohedas de Granadilla, adopted on 25 June 1991 and 18 June 1992 by the Municipal Council and validated on 31 March and 15 September 1992 by the Assessing Council of Honors and Distinctions of the Government of Extremadura, are prescribed by an Order issued on 6 November 1992 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 12 November 1992 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 89, pp. 2,490-2,491 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3. Composed of two horizontal stripes, the upper yellow, charged with the municipal coat of arms, and the lower, green, in respective proportions 2:3 and 1:3 of the flag's width.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Or a vase with weeds vert, 2. Argent a pomegranate proper. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The arms form a kind of rebus of the town's name. The "weed" is represented as a rockrose, while the pomegranate (granada) alludes to the disappeared municipality of Granadilla.
Ivan Sache, 20 March 2020