The Meridenian Coat of Arms presents a compound shape tierced per fess. The enamels Or, Azure and Gules constitutes a tribute to the Venezolanity.

The Quarter of the Chief enameled in Or (yellow) shows three panoplies: two swords crossed in saltire at dexter; a cannon with a mast with open sails at center and on the sinister an arrow crossed with a rifle rebounded by a Phrygian Cap, all in its colors. On this Quarter the crossed swords reminds the triumph of the Spaniard founders of the city of Mérida over the so called tyrant Lope de Aguirre; the cannon and the mast with open sails represent the continuous fights against the pirates on Gibraltar harbor whilst the arrow, the rifle and the Phrygian Cap alludes to Battle of Niquitao won by Rivas Dávila and his Meridenian army on 1813.

The Central Quarter enameled in Azure (blue) presents a snow crested mountain with a lake where a boat is sailing at dexter and a prairie at sinister with a Silver (white) horse running from dexter to sinister but looking to the dexter. The Second Quarter it's a general semblance of the Meridenian landscape: its snowed crests, its lacustrian depression and its mountain foot looking to the prairies. The horse maintains the characteristic posture of that appear on the Coat of Arms of Venezuela and remember too the Liberty.

The Quarter of the Base enameled in Gules (red) charges two bundles: one of sugar cane at dexter and one of wheat at sinister with a book and a flaming votive lamp in the middle. On this Quarter the bundles of sugar cane and wheat reminds the agricultural riches of the State whilst the book and flaming lamp symbolizes the Meridenian intellectual tradition and the creation of its University.

As external ornaments the blazon shows a condor in attitude of begin the flight crowned by a five-pointed star in Argent (Silver) as crest. The condor remembers the Andean roots of the region. The star symbolizes the Province of Mérida at the moment of its join to the national emancipation.

As supports a coffee branch at the dexter and a laurel branch at the sinister jointed by means of an Argent pennant. The coffee branch reaffirm the agricultural tradition of the State and the laurel one reminds the triumph of the efforts of its sons and daughters.

An Argent pennant charging as mottoes the following inscriptions: "ESTADO MERIDA" ("Merida State") at the center; "9 DE OCTUBRE DE 1558" ("October 9th, 1558") at the dexter and "16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1810" ("September 16th, 1810") at the sinister. The mottoes rebound the regional identity, the date of foundation of the capital of the State and the date of the begin of the Independency Movement of Venezuela.