The official
coat of arms of the
Capital District of
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
, the capital of
Colombia
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, was granted by the Emperor
Charles V to the
New Kingdom of Granada
The New Kingdom of Granada ( es, Nuevo Reino de Granada), or Kingdom of the New Granada, was the name given to a group of 16th-century Spanish colonial provinces in northern South America governed by the president of the Royal Audience of Santa ...
on December 3, 1548 in
Valladolid.
It was used by the
Viceroyalty of New Granada until independence, when a new coat of arms was adopted for the new republic of
Gran Colombia.
It continued to serve unofficially as the emblem of the city, but it was formally adopted as the coat of arms for the city of Bogotá by Accord 31 of 1932.
Design and meaning
The coat of arms contains in the middle of the shield an imposing
Imperial Eagle all in
sable
The sable (''Martes zibellina'') is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia. Its habitat also borders eastern Kaza ...
in a field of
Or. The eagle is an imperial symbol, granted by
Charles V and it holds in each claw a
pomegranate in
gules
In heraldry, gules () is the tincture with the colour red. It is one of the class of five dark tinctures called "colours", the others being azure (blue), sable (black), vert (green) and purpure (purple).
In engraving, it is sometimes depict ...
, symbol of New Granada.
Its border is
azure
Azure may refer to:
Colour
* Azure (color), a hue of blue
** Azure (heraldry)
** Shades of azure, shades and variations
Arts and media
* ''Azure'' (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), 1987
* Azure (Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell album), 2013
...
with nine golden pomegranates, which represent the states that in that day formed the New Kingdom of Granada.
References
* https://web.archive.org/web/20040825090400/http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/NuestraCiudad/simbolos.htm
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