Flag of La Pampa

The coat of arms in the center of the flag was designed and adopted in 1964. The idea of adopting the first provincial flag was put forward by the then provincial deputy Héctor De la Iglesia in 1989. The aim of the undertaking was to promote the culture of the province and the federalism that was being reborn after a period of authoritarianism. De la Iglesia developed a bill to announce a competition to select the flag. The competition was never held, but later that same year Dr. Miguel Carrillo Bascary approached the governor of La Pampa directly with his own proposals, based on traditional indigenous patterns.

The flag issue came up again in 1993, during the constitutional reform process. Lawyer José Carlos Ricci included a drawing of his proposed flag in his influential publication "The Constitutional Reform of La Pampa and Its Foundations". In the original design the flag was longer and the coat of arms overlapped all the stripes.^[3] Ricci's proposal was accepted, but the flag was adopted by provincial resolution no. 1513, rather than as an article in the constitution. The resolution also changed the design, simply defining the flag as identical to the national flag with the coat of arms placed in the middle of the white stripe. The flag was adopted on 10 August 1994, and officially presented on 16 October, the same day that members of the Chamber of Deputies took the oath to the new constitution.^[4]

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