The

flag A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design empl ...

of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical

tricolour A tricolour () or tricolor () is a type of flag or banner design with a triband design which originated in the 16th century as a symbol of republicanism, liberty, or revolution. The flags of France, Italy, Romania, Mexico, and Ireland were ...

of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the

Coat of arms of the Canary Islands The coat of arms of the Canary Islands is the central device of the flag of the Canary Islands, Spain. It reads "Oceano". The designs were made official by the Statute of Autonomy of the Canarian Autonomous Community (Organic Law 10/82) on 10 Au ...

in the central band; the civil flag omits this. The designs were made official by the Statute of Autonomy of the Canarian Autonomous Community (Organic Law 10/82) on 16 August 1982.

History and meaning

The tricolour flag has its origins in the ''Canarias Libre'' movement of the 1960s. It was designed by Carmen Sarmiento and her sons Arturo and Jesus Cantero Sarmiento, and first displayed (in paper form) on 8 September 1961. It combined the blue and white colours of the

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, also Province of Santa Cruz ( es, link=no, Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife), is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of abou ...

(Province of Canary Islands) with the blue and yellow colours of the

Province of Las Palmas The Province of Las Palmas (, ; es, Provincia de Las Palmas) is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, capital city of this province and of the isla ...

Colours

The colours of the flag as specified by the Canarian Government are the following:''Boletín Oficial de Canarias número 237, viernes 2 de diciembre de 2005 - 1644. «Manual Identidad Corporativa Gráfica».''
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''*Assumed to be pure white due to it not being specified exactly.''

Flags of the provinces

The Spanish Provinces of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas do not have a flag.

Island flags

Image:Flag of El Hierro.svg, Flag of

El Hierro El Hierro, nicknamed ''Isla del Meridiano'' (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest-south and -west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with a populatio ...

Image:Flag of La Palma with CoA.svg, Flag of

La Palma La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and officially San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of making it the fifth largest of the eight main Canary Islands. The ...

Image:Flag of La Gomera.svg, Flag of

La Gomera La Gomera () is one of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. With an area of , it is the third smallest of the eight main islands of this archipelago. It belongs to the province of Santa Cruz de Tene ...

Image:Flag of Tenerife.svg, Flag of

Tenerife Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the Archipelago, archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitant ...

Image:Flag of Gran Canaria.svg, Flag of

Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that ...

Image:Flag of Fuerteventura.svg, Flag of

Fuerteventura Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the North Africa region, and politically part of Spain. It is located away from the northwestern coast of Africa. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNE ...

Image:Flag of Lanzarote.svg, Flag of

Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the i ...

Other versions

File:Royal banner of Jean de Béthencourt.svg, Banner of

Kingdom of the Canary Islands The Kingdom of the Canary Islands was a vassal state of the Crown of Castile located in North Africa, lasting from 1404 to 1448. First contact by Europeans Apart from earlier contact by Romans, one of the first known Europeans to have encounter ...

under

Jean de Béthencourt Jean de Béthencourt () (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanzarote. From there he conquered for Castile the islands of Fuerteventura (1405) and El ...

File:Flag of Tknara.svg, Canarian flag proposed by

Azarug Azarug Is a leftist youth organization of the Canary Islands founded in 1992 that seeks the independence of the archipelago. It defines itself as a leftist revolutionary pro-independence organization. Its principles include anti-imperialism, an ...

File:Bandera Ateneo.svg, "Ateneo Flag", the first Canarian nationalist flag. The seven stars represent the seven islands of the archipelago File:MPAIAC.svg, The flag proposed by the CIIM. File:Bandera Canarias Libre.svg, Flag adopted by the Canarias Libre Movement

References

External links

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Banderas de Canarias
by José Manuel Erbez.
Canary Islands Flag
- History & Meaning by Guide to Canary Islands {{DEFAULTSORT:Canary Islands, Flag of the Flags of Spain

Flag A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design empl ...

Canary Canary originally referred to the island of Gran Canaria on the west coast of Africa, and the group of surrounding islands (the Canary Islands). It may also refer to: Animals Birds * Canaries, birds in the genera '' Serinus'' and ''Crithagra'' ...

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, :es:Canarias, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to ...

Flags introduced in 1982