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image by António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
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São Salvador do Mundo is one of the two landlocked municipalities in
Cabo Verde (among 22 total; the other being São
Lourenço dos Órgãos); it had 8677 inhabitants in 2010 and covers
29.40 km² (the smallest of all 22 municipalities). The municipal seat
is Picos town.
António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
There is no colonial-era equivalent of the current
flag as this municipality was created in 2005, already well in Cabo
Verde’s Second Republic — by dettaching one of the communes of
mun. Santa Catarina.
António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
The flag of the Municipality of Sao Salvador do Mundo is white with
municipal emblem on it. (Source: photos of
2017.12.29 and
2024.03.26.)
Valentin Poposki, 02 Jun 2024
The latter
photo shows a flag printed on one side only, with its faint reverse on display.
This photo also shows both flags (municipal and national)
with the same exact diagonal length, implying the same ratio for both, if the
hoist height is, as usual, also the same. Not sure how that helps determining
the ratio of the municipal flag, as the national flag
ratio is known to be itself also variable. I would however opine that 1:2
seems to be too oblong, given the amount of visible background between the
emblem and the fly edge.
António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
The emblem on the flag contains the usual elements in their
most typical positions and styles — ten stars,
three green chain links, scroll (yellow; simple ribbon type), and the usual
circular shield.
António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
![[emblem]](../images/c/cv-77).gif)
image by António Martins, 27 Dec 2025 |
(source)
The circular shield is thinly edged concentrically in several colors: from
the outside inwards — dark blue, then red, then very thin pale blue,
then white, then again very thin pale blue, the latter bleeding into the sky
area of the depicted scene that consists the main emblem motif itself:
It shows in dark grey the dramatic outline of the local landmark Picos
(also the municipal seat town namesake) with an idealized waterfall (or
cave?) in white, pale blue and light blue, two unspecific green conifers
on its slope, a bird in flight as a solid red contour, and, to the hoist
side, the façade of the local church, cream with red roofs, light blue
accents, black windows, and light grey fence. (See
photos
of this
scape. The actual church has symmetric towers, not one smaller than the other,
as shown on the emblem.)
António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
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