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Cañada Juncosa (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Flag of Cañada Juncosa - Image by "Nethunter", Wikimedia Commons, 20 June 2019

Presentation of Cañada Juncosa
Symbols of Cañada Juncosa

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Presentation of Cañada Juncosa

The municipality of Cañada Juncosa (252 inhabitants in 2018; 4,272 ha) is located 100 km south of Cuenca.
Cañada Juncosa must have emerged as an estate established after the Christian reconquest of Alarcón, close to the old Roman road (cañada) heading to Valeria. For the sake of differentiation from other villages named Cañada, the epithet Juncosa was added, referring to reeds (joncos). The village was originally divided in four boroughs depending on Alarcón, Cañavate, Honrubia, and Vara de Rey, respectively, which were eventually united in a single municipality in 1835.
Cañada Juncosa is the birth place of Manuel Fermín Garrido, Secretary of the Royal Academy of History in 1830.
[Hincossayd Revista de Cañada Juncosa, 27 January 2007]

Ivan Sache, 20 June 2019

Symbols of Cañada Juncosa

The flag of Cañada Juncosa is prescribed by an Order issued on 8 October 1997 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 24 October 1997 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 48, p. 6,609 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular panel, one and a half times longer than wide (3:2), red, a white border charged with four green stars placed in the vertical and horizontal axes of the flag.

The coat of arms of Cañada Juncosa is prescribed by an Order issued on 8 October 1997 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 24 October 1997 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 48, p. 6,609 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Argent a bend vert four stars argent cantonned by two triangular caldrons gules and or. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.

The stars recall the four boroughs forming the village. The caldrons recall that the village was once part of the Marquisate of Villena, then owned by the Pacheco lineage.
[Hincossayd Revista de Cañada Juncosa, 27 January 2007]

Ivan Sache, 20 June 2019