

However in the coat of arms the mount appears in a more nature-like representation, while in the flag we see a more stylized image of the mount. We see the image of the mount in both, the arms and the flag. The Coat of Arms (or emblem) of the Province was designed in 1959, predating the flag that was adopted in 2000. There is even a really very popular folk song in the Patagonia dedicated to the Chaltén. Mount Fitz Roy or Mount Chaltén (Chaltén is the indigenous name and it is the name usually heard nowadays). The central mountain in both the flag and the coat of arms of Santa Cruz is The booth has the provincial flag hoisted over the roof.

Prepared to check anything) at the entrance of a small city. One of the characters stops at a kind of check point (ratherĪn information booth because the policeman does not seem to be San Julian, 300 km southwards, via the Patagonian road. Which depicts, in a very sensible and humoristic manner, twoĭays in the life of a few inhabitants of Fitzroy who go to The flag of Santa Cruz province is shown in theīy Carlos Serón (2002). Santiago Sebastián Arenillas (designer of the flag), Īnother flag with three shades of blue on it. October 12th of 2000 at El Chaltén, town of 200 habitants located at theįeet of the Cerro from which took its name. The Flag of the Provincia de Santa Cruz was first raised on Heart and eyes of everyone who witnesses this latitudes. Surrounds us and remains there at the reach of our hands and inside the Of our geography, the never ending limits of our sky, our sea, our land.īecause everything seems to be far but nature itself, the immensity that Past and the present, the history that we are still writing. The union of these elements tries to point out the nexus between the The sea that bathes our provincial shores from north to south, whichįeeds life to the east of our territory is represented on the lower part in The Cerro Chaltén, emblems of the Aónikenk, ancient race that lived on this southern land. A half circle contains the night, the Southern Cross and It’s a raising sun, symbol of the youth of Of divinity for the native Indians as a patriotic The light blue represents the same sky under which


Surrounds that we are defined as santacruceños, what makes us feel asĪn important part of Argentina yet not always remembered. Our land, of our geography, because it is mostly by the landscape that The design of this flag attempts to reflect the main characteristics of Whitin the sun is the Cerro El Chaltén and the Southern Cross ,Īs in the coat of arms. 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. Today it was first hoisted the new provincial flag of the Argentine Province of Santa Cruz meaning, Holly Cross, is one of the newest Argentine provinces. Tierra del Fuego is the big island located south of the continent. The province of Santa Cruz is located in the South of continental Argentina.
