Flag of the Canary Islands

State flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Flag ratio: 2:3

Civil flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Flag ratio: 2:3

The flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the Coat of arms of the Canary Islands 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.

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 with the blue and yellow colours of the other Canarian province, the Province of Las Palmas.[1]

See also

• Canary Islands Independence Movement
• Popular Front of the Canary Islands

External links

• Canary Islands at Flags of the World
• Banderas de Canerias by José Manuel Erbez.