Flag of the Canary Islands

The flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the coat of arms of the Canary Islands in the central band; the civil flag omits this. The designs were made official by the Statute of Autonomy of the Canarian Autonomous Community (Organic Law 10/82) on 16 August 1982.

Official flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Flag ratio: 2:3

Version with Coat of Arms (not legislated). Flag ratio: 2:3

Flag of the Maritime Province of the Canary Islands, which is based on the current Flag of Tenerife.

Flags of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain and the Canary Islands

History and meaning

The tricolour flag has its origins in the Canarias Libre movement of the 1960s. It was designed by Carmen Sarmiento and her sons Arturo and Jesus Cantero Sarmiento, and first displayed (in paper form) on 8 September 1961. It combined the blue and white colours of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Province of Canary Islands) with the blue and yellow colours of the Province of Las Palmas.^[1] The two dogs represented on flag's seal centered on the flag are Perro de Presa Canarios, or Canary Catch Dogs, that were first bred on the Canary Islands by ranchers who use them to herd and protect their cattle. ^[2]

Colours

The colours of the flag as specified by the Canarian Government are the following:^[3]

	Pantone	CMYK colour model				RGB colour model			Web colours
Colour	Identification	C	M	Y	K	R	G	B	HTML code
White*	Not specified	0%	0%	0%	0%	255	255	255	#FFFFFF
Blue	3005	100%	35%	0%	0%	7	104	169	#0768A9
Yellow	7406	0%	20%	100%	0%	255	204	0	#FFCC00

*Assumed to be pure white due to it not being specified exactly.

Flags of the provinces

• 
  Flag of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 
  Flag of Las Palmas

Island flags

• 
  Flag of El Hierro
• 
  Flag of La Palma
• 
  Flag of La Gomera
• 
  Flag of Tenerife
• 
  Flag of Gran Canaria
• 
  Flag of Fuerteventura
• 
  Flag of Lanzarote

Other versions

• 
  Banner of Kingdom of the Canary Islands under Jean de Béthencourt
• 
  Canarian flag proposed by Azarug
• 
  "Ateneo Flag", the first Canarian nationalist flag. The seven stars represent the seven islands of the archipelago
• 
  The flag proposed by the CIIM.
• 
  Flag adopted by the Canarias Libre Movement

See also

• Coat of arms of Canary Islands
• Flag of Tenerife
• Tourism in the Canary Islands

References

1. History of the Canarian Flag
2. "Dog symbol of the Canary Islands Disappears".
3. Boletín Oficial de Canarias número 237, viernes 2 de diciembre de 2005 - 1644. «Manual Identidad Corporativa Gráfica».

External links

• Canary Islands at Flags of the World
• Banderas de Canarias by José Manuel Erbez.
• Canary Islands Flag - History & Meaning by Guide to Canary Islands
• Canary Islands Guide