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Abya Yala (Inca’s South America)

Last modified: 2017-10-27 by antónio martins
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image by António Martins, 12 Feb 2000

• Continental flag
• Pair flag
  • Chakana with bicolor disc
    • Red chakana
    • Chakana in 7×7 pattern
  • Two triangles

See also:

• Inca flags

External links:

• Wip’ala: bandera del pusisuyu, online (archived) version of [qch9X]
• Abya Yala entry in the Quechua Wikipedia

Continental flag

The Continental flag (used by the native peoples to represent Latin America (Awyayala, in Quechua): plain white.
Jaume Ollé, 1997

In Kara Chukiwanka’s article [qch9X] this flag pair is presented as «Janq’u Wip’ala», or white flag, one of the three flags of the Wiñaymarka culture. This is a flag pair, consisting of a square white flag and another flag. No explicit reference to the flag pair duality, apart from the illustration showing both flags (plain and two-triangle). No indication about its (modern?) use as the flag of Awya Yala (=South America).
António Martins, 03 Jun 2008

Its pair flag

Chakana with bicolor disc

image by António Martins, 05 Feb 2007

The continental flag also is has a pair. It is white (?) with a zig-zag cross with a central disc of two-colors (I only have a black and white image). This symbol is named chakana and the disc represents the day and the night.
Jaume Ollé, 1997

Red chakana

image by António Martins, 05 Feb 2007

In this online 2005 photo (context), is also shown, but painted/pasted on a ribbon banner instead of held as a regular flag, the white square flag with large red chakana pierced with a black and white disc.
António Martins, 24 Nov 2006

Chakana in 7×7 pattern

image by António Martins, 05 Feb 2007

This flag can be seen in use, along with a Qullasuyu flag (white diagonal), as a lecture table cloth in a photo on line. Note that on this photo the hoist of the flags used for table draping is facing down: The pattern for the chakana and its placement on the flag is based on the 7×7 square suyu flag design, which is yet another way to draw and place the chakana.
António Martins, 04 Feb 2007

Two triangles

image by António Martins, 03 Jun 2008

In Kara Chukiwanka’s article [qch9X] this flag pair is presented as «Janq’u Wip’ala», or white flag, one of the three flags of the Wiñaymarka culture. This is a flag pair, consisting of a square white flag and a square white flag with two small triangles, yellow and red, joint in a figure of eight. According to Kara Chukiwanka’s article article [qch9X], this «signo bitriángulo de color amarillo y rojo »(…)« en base a las cuatro divisiones del Pusisuyu».
António Martins, 03 Jun 2008

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