The Costa Rican Flag and
its meaning
..our revolutionary but peaceful simbol !
The Costa Rican flag is the symbol that we have in our country to let
the world know that we got independent of the Spain Empire.
This happened because at some point in history Costa Rica and most
Central America countries belonged to one government called “Federal
Republic of Central America”.
Fortunately that figure was dissolved in 1841 and Costa Rica started to
work on it’s new image, this was leaded by Pacifica Fernandez Oreamuno
who designed the flag in September 1848, and as we were in ‘rebel
model’ she declared that the
Google Maps shows Costa Rica's
coordenades as 9.748917,-83.753428
inspiration for the new flag came from the French revolution and that’s
the reason why the Costa Rican flag have the same colors of the French
one.
Another fun fact about this episode in history is that this lady was
not a regular costa rican woman as my mother or my sister, of course
not; she was married to the country president Jose Maria Castro Madriz
and I think that when she told him ‘Hey baby, here is the flag, use
it…’ he better obeyed her to not get in troubles with a wife inspired
by a war, to me that's clever.
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The Costa Rican flag colors explained
The colors of the flag are blue, white and red and I remember that
since I was in school it have been always a discussion about what they
really mean. The Blue stands for the sky that covers the country, the
idea is that it protects us; other people say that it also represents
eternity or the desire to have high goals.
The white color basically represents peace. If you come to Costa Rica
you will notice that we are kind of laid back, friendly people that try
to avoid conflict. I think the white should mean ‘relax’ instead.
The last is the red one; most people say that it means the blood of
people who served the country in the army fighting for freedom; but
popularly means the blood of hard working people, like me :)
Some Costa Rican Flags Pictures I took..
(Roll Over Thumbnails to See Photos)
These great photos are courtesy of
jvargas,
thombo2,
Hobo Matt,
thombo2 and
The Energy on Flickr. You can click each user name for
copyright.
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The Costa Rican Flag is easy to see in..
Every single school, high school or university, hospitals, banks and
governmental institutions. Easy to see in festivals in April and almost
daily in September for the Independence Day celebrations, and if you
live in Costa Rica you will use to go to the streets to complain
against the government about taxes, low salaries or ‘nonsense laws’
sometimes they approved for us.
A more national usage I like better is when the National Soccer team
plays against a good team and win…You will see the flag everywhere and
most costarican will wear a red t-shirt the next day…but if we lose we
will talk about how bad our team performed, for sure the entire day.
I captured some nice Costa Rican flags on video
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