Flag of Chubut | |
Adopted | (unknown) |
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Designed by | (unknown) |
Proportions | (unknown) |
The flag of Chubut has the following design:
In the center of the flag a wheel of gears will be observed: symbol of the industrial production. Behind the gear and over it a rising sun similar to the one shown in the Provincial Shield: "a great stylized, streamlined, symmetrical sun, whose rigid rays represent the fifteen departments that integrate the Province and forecasting a shining future".
Underneath the rising sun, the identificatories attributes of the Provincial Shield are represented: "the Florentino Ameghino Hydroelectrical Dam, in an oblique perspective, estructure of fundamental importance that symbolizes the concretion of the efforts to dominate the River and the conquest of modern engineering, next to the creative effort of man for the development of the agriculture is represented by a great stem of wheat that stands perpendicular from the top of the dam". The yellow horizontal line: represents the rivers of the Province, and in particular the Chubut River, that crosses the territory from the West to the East and of from which the Province takes its name. This line expresses "the two historical stages of the political organization: the [historical] National Territory and the [present day] Province".