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Flag of El Ejido - Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 October 2012
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The municipality of El Ejido (82,983 inhabitants in 2013, therefore the 3rd most populated municipality in the province; 22,700 ha; municipal website) is located straight in the centre of the "Plastic Sea" in the west of the Province of Almería. The town is located in Campo de Dalías at the foot hills of the Alpujarra Mountains. It arises like an island out of a landscape consisting just of greenhouses, where especially tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini are cultivated intensively and harvested four times a year. In the 1950, the number of inhabitants was just 3,000.
The municipality of El Ejido was established by separation from the former municipality of Dalías, which was split into two new municiplaities, Dalías and El Ejido, by Royal Decree No. 2,251, adopted on 30 July 1982 and published on 11 September 1982 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 218, p. 24,643 (text). The separation followed the transfer of the capital of the former municipality of Dalías from Dalías to El Ejido, approved on 8 May 1981 by the Government of Andalusia. An Information Commission for Territorial Reorganization was set up on 25 May 1981; the Commission validated the proposal tabled by the Villagers' Association of separation of the villages of Dalías and Celín from el Ejido. The municipality initiated the separation process on 2 April 1982, the proposal of separation being reaffirmed on 26 May 1982 and approved by the Almería Provincial Council.
Klaus-Michael Schneider & Ivan Sache, 13 October 2012
The flag of El Ejido, adopted on 9 September 1996 by the Municipal Council and validated on 20 March 1997 by the Royal Academy of Cordóba, is prescribed by Decree No. 143, adopted on 20 May 1997 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 24 June 1997 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 72, p. 7,742 (text). This was confirmed by a Decree adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, in length (from hoist to fly) one time and a half the width, divided perpendicularily to the hoist into two equal stripes, the upper stripe of colour flag green, the lower stripe white, charged with four wavy stripes of colour sea blue, all proportioned in height and length.
The flag hoisted in front of the Town Hall, of the local police station and of two major hotels, is charged with the coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms of El Ejido is prescribed by Royal Decree No. 2,477, adopted on 13 July 1983 and published on 15 September 1983 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 221, p. 25,340 (text). This was confirmed by a Decree adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The coat of arms, validated by the Royal Academy of History, is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Vert a four-columned temple or, in base waves argent and azure, in chief the writing "MURGI" in letters argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The temple recalls an old sanctuary dedicated to god Mars. Murgi was the name of the town in the Roman times (2nd-4th centuries). The waves represent the coast bathed by the Mediterranean Sea.
[Símbolos de las Entidades Locales de Andalucía. Almería (PDF file)]
Klaus-Michael Schneider & Ivan Sache, 13 October 2012