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The Coat of Arms of Aragua State

Heraldical Description


The Araguenian Coat of Arms consists of a compound contour with form of tally filleted in Argent (silver), divided per bend, the dexter per bend sinister.

The Sinister Quarter of the Chief enameled in Gules (red) presents a blond woman dressed and winged of silver that holds with her right hand a laurel crown and with her left-hand a palm branch. This Quarter shows a representation of the ancient Greek goddess of the Victory which alludes to the battle which got rid in the town with the same name, "La Victoria" (The Victory) on February 12th, 1814, where young students and seminarians of the University of Caracas fought jointly with the Patriot Troops under the command of General José Félix Ribas, one of the most bravest heroes of the Venezuelan Independence War, and won over the royalist army under the conduction of the Spaniard Colonel Francisco Tomás Morales.

The Dexter Quarter enameled in Or (yellow) shows a tree in its colors terraced in Vert (green). This Quarter presents a representation of the so-called "Samán de Güere" (Pitecellobium saman Jacq. Benth): historical tree admired by the famous German Naturalist Baron Alexander von Humboldt and his friend, the French Botanic Aimee Bonpland during their visit to Venezuela on 1800, calculating that then the plant was about 1.000 years old. It's says too that time after El Libertador Simon Bolivar rested under its frond when he was on campaign and since these times until now, it constitutes an ecological emblem of the State, representing in addition the inexhaustible fertility of the Araguenian ground.

The Quarter of the Base in Sky-Blue (variation of the heraldical Azure or blue) charges a colonial house terraced in Vert (green) and fired in Gules (red). This Quarter shows a semblance of the Historical House called "El Ingenio Bolívar" ("The Bolivar's Sugar Cane Farm and Mill") located in the town of San Mateo and property of El Libertador's family which was conditioned like Patriots' bastion during the Venezuelan Independence War: place where surrendered heroically his life the New Grenadine (Colombian) Colonel Antonio Ricaurte firing the Gun Powder deposits when the royalist troops took the house on March 25th, 1814.

As external ornaments the blazon presents a sun rising from the Chief in whose disc appears the word "ARAGUA" inscribed in capital gothic letters of Gules (red). The rising sun constitutes reaffirmation of the regional identity.

As crest and as supports a branch of fruited coffee to the dexter and another one of cane to the sinister jointed under the Base by means of a pennant in Or (yellow) where appear as mottoes the ephemeris: "FEBRERO DE 1814" (February of 1814) to the dexter and "MARZO DE 1814" (March of 1814) to the sinister. The cane and coffee branches remember two of main agricultural products of the region, whereas the ephemeris respectively alludes to the glorious events of "La Victoria" and "San Mateo", previously mentioned.