The flag

Flag

A flag is a piece of fabric with a distinctive design that is usually rectangular and used as a symbol, as a signaling device, or decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.The first flags were used to assist...

 of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

is a vertical tricolour

Tricolour

A tricolour is a flag or banner more-or-less equally divided into three bands of differing colours...

 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

History and meaning

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

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife also Province of Santa Cruz is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma, and...

 (Province of Canary Islands) with the blue and yellow colours of the Province of Las Palmas

Las Palmas (province)

The Province of Las Palmas is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.-Composition:...

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Colours

The colours of the flag as specified by the Canarian Government are the following:

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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.

See also

• Coat of arms of Canary Islands
  Coat of arms of Canary Islands
  The coat of arms of the Canary Islands is the central device of the flag of the Canary Islands. It reads "Oceano". The designs were made official by the Statute of Autonomy of the Canarian Autonomous Community on 16 August 1982....
  
  
• Flag of Tenerife
  Flag of Tenerife
  The Flag of Tenerife is a white saltire over a blue field. The arms of the cross are approximately one fifth the width of the flag and the field is navy blue...
  
  
• Tourism in the Canary Islands
  Tourism in the Canary Islands
  Tourism is an essential part of the economy of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the west coast of Africa. Seven main islands and six islets make up the Canary Islands. They had more than 9 million foreign incoming tourists in 2007. Tourists seeking sunshine and beaches first began to visit...
  
  

External links

• Banderas de Canerias by José Manuel Erbez.