| Flag of Santa Cruz Province | |
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| Adopted | October 12, 2000 |
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| Designed by | Santiago Sebastián Arenillas |
| Proportions | (unknown) |
The flag of Santa Cruz Province is the flag of the Argentine province of Santa Cruz.
The flag is celeste (sky blue) with white waves on dark blue in the lower part (similar to the Kiribati flag) with a yellow sun. Within the sun is the Cerro El Chaltén [also called Fitz Roy] and the Southern Cross [Constellation], as in the coat of arms.
Symbolism[]
The light blue represents the same sky under which Manuel Belgrano created our national flag, the sun is both a symbol of divinity for the native Indians as a patriotic sun. It’s a raising sun, symbol of the youth of this province. A half circle contains the night, the Southern Cross and the Cerro Chaltén [Mount Chaltén], emblems of the Aónikenk, ancient race that lived on this southern land. The sea that bathes our provincial shores from north to south, which feeds life to the east of our territory is represented on the lower part in white and blue waves. The union of these elements tries to point out the nexus between the past and the present, the history that we are still writing. The dimensions of our geography, the never ending limits of our sky, our sea, our land. Because everything seems to be far but nature itself, the immensity that surrounds us and remains there at the reach of our hands and inside the heart and eyes of everyone who witnesses this latitudes.