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National Emblems National Flag
The national flag is made up by two blue horizontal strips and in the middle of them a white strip. Its official size is 3.35 meters (11 feet) long and 1.89 meters (6.2 feet) wide. The strips have a wide of 0.63 cm (0.25 inch). It was adopted by an Order of the Legislative Power on May 17, 1912 ; the Salvadoran flag is the same of the Centroamerican Federation ordered by the National Assembly on August 21, 1823. Prayer to the Flag "DIOS te salve Patria Sagrada, en tu seno hemos nacido y amado; eres el aire que respiramos, la tierra que nos sustenta, la familia que amamos, la libertad que nos defiende, la religion que nos consuela. Tu tienes nuestro hogares queridos, fertiles campinas, rios majestuosos, soberbios volcanes, apacibles lagos, cielos de purpura y oro. En tus campos ondulan doradas espigas, en tus talleres vibran los motores,chisporrotean los yunques,surgen las bellezas del arte. Patria, en tu lengua armoniosa pedimos al providencia que te ampare, que abra nuestras almas al resplandor del cielo, grabe en ella dulce afecto al Maestro y a la Escuela y nos infunda tu santo amor. Patria, tu historia, blason de heroes y martires, resena virtudes y anhelos; tu reverencias el Acta que consagro la soberania nacional y marcas la senda florida en que la Justicia y la Libertad nos llevan hacia DIOS. ¡Bandera de la Patria, Simbolo sagrado de El Salvador, te saludan revernetes las nuevas generaciones! Para ti el sol vivificante de nuestras glorias, los himnos del patriotismo, los laureles de los heroes. Para ti el respeto de los pueblos y la corona de amor que hoy ceninos a tus inmortales sienes." National Shield
It was created by the Salvadoran calligrapher Rafael Barraza Rodriguez, in a contest made up by the Ministry of war and navy on 1912. Its triangle is an old trinitarian symbol of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The two open oceans are the spirit of a village in constant solidarity with other free nations. The five volcanoes represent the wildness of our race, the start of our nationality. The sky full of lightning represents the glory, heroism and the sacrifice for Liberty. The cap that is crown by the loyalty that confirm our sovereign, the symbol of the liberation from the foreign yoke. The rainbow of peace, is the road in which Central America must go to its destiny. The five flags, in which is conserved the Federation colors, is the heritage of our Proceres and the dream of Morazán. The fourteen branches of Laurel represents the fourteen departments of El Salvador's Republic and are an exaltation of the glory for the ones that breath to the road of liberty in work and in progress. Where the branches are joined there is a pledge that says: DIOS, UNION, LIBERTAD (in English it means GOD, UNION, LIBERTY). In school, children are taught "Dios (God) be always with God, Union (union) that everybody should be together and never should exist a separation between people, Libertad (liberty) that every person in the world has the right to be free and we should fight for that liberty." Salvadoran families have a strong belief in a Superior Power that governs all. Their unity and harmony for a better future dominates the spirit of freedom of a people who worked hard to become free from foreign rule. |
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