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I was informed by the council there is no municipal flag.
Daniel Rentería, 1 March 2025
image created using coat of arms by Daniel Rentería, 1 March 2025
The convention center in Ciudad del Carmen flies a flag for each municipality, white with the coat of arms and name in black, including Tenabo.
Daniel Rentería, 1 March 2025
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The actual Tenabo coat of arms was created in 2001, decreed by the council of 2000 to 2003 under the Municipal Presidency of José Román Chan Poot. It was created by Prof. Fidel Caro Herrera, at the invitation of municipal chronicler Eudaldo Chávez Molina. Description according to the Municipal Edict on Police and Good Government:
The contour which frames the Shield has in the base a ceremonial bar of two heads, symbol of the religious dignity most elevated among the Mayas of the Classical Period, the same of which rests over a stylized base with a point facing down which represents the leaf of a cob (Holoch).
In the center of the ceremonial bar it has a glyph which corresponds to a month of the calendar named the month of Kankín; just above this glyph is a source from which a cob surges, since corn was the basic aliment and formation of man in the Maya culture. To the sides two glyphs are observed which signify the east and west; and joined to these, are two Maya heads, symbols of communication, of words and speech.
In the center of the majestic mask of Kinich-Ahau found in Kankí, which with its archaeological astronomic phenomenon singular in its form, marked always for Tenabo as an origin of our ethnicity. From this archaeological relic descending into rays of gold the light of sun which marks the nascence of planting and later the harvest, at the same time signifying the fertilized furrow of corn in the pre-Hispanic era. Behind Kinich-Ahau, one can observe the colonial symbolism with the upper part of the church of Tenabo, religious union of this town and fruit of mestizaje. Crowning the colonial church is the classic corbel Maya arch.
After the corbel Maya arch in turquoise blue tone, in color red, the horizon is seen in a sunset of the sun which in May bathes in light the face of Kinich-Ahau, man of the solar eye, in a natural phenomenon previously mentioned. Framing the upper part in stylized form, the symbolic leaf of Holoch which crowns in general form the Shield with three cobs, in the middle of the three and in its bases a red point which is also observed in the upper corners, below the mask and to the sides of the ceremonial bar: are grains of corn which for their historic importance, the Mayas converted in God and basic aliment of these peoples.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The image at Wikimedia Commons is NOT the Tenabo coat of arms. It was the council logo from 1997 to 2000, under
Ponciano Narvaéz Moo, also designed by Prof. Fidel Caro Herrera.
Daniel Rentería, 1 March 2025
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