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The Coat of Arms of State

Heraldical Description


The Falconian Coat of Arms outlined in Or (yellow) is tierced per fess.

The Quarter of the Chief enameled in Gules (red) shows two golden thrones: the dexter one with a staff of command and the sinister one with a bishop's staff. This Quarter reminds that was in the city of Coro, capital of the State, where had its seat on national territory the first Spanish colonial government and the first Bishopric of Venezuela.

The Central Quarter enameled in Sky-blue (variation of the Heraldic Azure or blue), presents a sea in Vert (green) with a sun raising from a series of dunes to the sinister and to the dexter a brig on which waves a flag divided in fess of Or (yellow), Azure (blue) and Gules (red). This Quarter represents the arrival of Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda -one of the most illustrious heroes of Venezuela- to Falconian coasts on August 3rd, 1806: day when the sun of the American Freedom greeting for first time from the Venezuelan ground the glorious Iris of the Homeland.

The Quarter of the Base enameled in Or (yellow) presents a mountainous pick on Sable (black) crowned by an rising eagle in Argent whose beack holds a pennant in Or charging the words "DIOS Y FEDERACION" ("God and Federation") in Sable (black) and whose claws subject a naked sword in Argent garnished of gold and dressed with another pennant in Or which presents the ephemeris "2O DE FEBRERO DE 1859" ("February 20th, 1859") in Sable (black). This Quarter symbolizes the Eagle of the Freedom that walks on triumph the flashing sword of the Federal Cause through the refulgent sky of the immortality, leaving from the summit mountain of the Venezuelan Federation, comparing it with the Aventino Mount in Rome where Simón Bolívar swear to gave freedom to his Homeland, whilst rebound its War Cry and date of beginning on Coro.

As External Ornaments appear the denomination "ESTADO FALCON" ("Falcon State") as "War Voice"; a constellation of eleven five-pointed stars in Or disposed in arc as crest: The denomination of the State reinforces its identity and the constellation represents the municipalities that integrate it.

And as supports a nopal tree branch at the dexter and a coffe branch at the sinister jointed under the base by means of a pennant striped in Or (yellow), Azure (blue) and Gules (red) where appears as mottoes the following ephemeris: "5 DE JULIO DE 1811" ("July 5th, 1811"), under the base; "24 DE MARZO DE 1864" ("March 24th, 1864"), at the dexter and "18 DE AGOSTO DE 1863" ("August 18th, 1863) at the sinister: inscriptions realized in capital gothic letters of Sable (black).

The nopal branch represents the aridity of the Falconian plains and the coffee branch remembers the fertility of its opulent mountainous landscape. The ephemeris reminds, respectively, the date of the Signature of the Act of the Independence of Venezuela, as homage of gratitude to the memory of the eminent patricians to who is owed the sacred inheritance of a free and independent Homeland; the date when was dictated the Decree by means of which was abolished forever the slavery in Venezuela and the date when was emitted the "Decreto de Garantías" ("Decree of Guarantees") where is rebounds the high magnanimity of the Venezuelan Federalism.