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![[Flag of Goiás (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-go.gif)
7:10 image by Joseph McMillan
Adopted 30 July 1919
The flag of Goiás is formed of bars: the green bars symbolize spring and the
yellow bars gold, just as in the national flag. The blue rectangle represents
the sky and the stars are the constellation of the Southern Cross, chosen as the
one which most typifies the sky of Goiás. The flag was created during the
government of João Alves do Castro, governor of the state, through a law dated
30 July 1919, and was based on a design of Joaquim Bonifácio of
Siqueira.
Jaume Ollé 28 June 1996
According to
"Goiaz - Coração do Brasil" [Goiás: Heart of Brazil], by Ofélia Sócrates
do Nascimento Monteiro, the flag was adopted by law no. 650 of 30 July 1919.
The Southern Cross is identified with the original names given to Brazil by
the first Portuguese explorers, Vera Cruz [True Cross] and Santa Cruz [Holy
Cross]. Its appearance in the Goiás flag is also said to symbolize the
beauty of the state's sky. Like other Brazilian state symbols, this flag would
have been banned under the Vargas regime from 1937 to 1946. I do not have
the citation of the legal act reinstating the flag, but a comparison with
the one shown in Clovis Ribeiro's 1933 book of
Brazilian flags shows it has not changed.
Joseph McMillan, 24 August 2002
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