The Trujillo State Coat of Arms shows an oval shape divided per pale and fess with a bar on its center.

The first quarter charges on a silvered ground a golden zigzag ray naissant of an arrow which represents a public notary ancient pen and reminds the "Decreto de Guerra a Muerte" (War until Death Decree) signed by El Libertador Simon Bolivar in 1813 and besides the Trujillian Culture and Intellectuality.

The second quarter enameled in Or (yellow) presents an alliance, heraldical figure which represents two hands in friendly gesture: one dressed with an azure (blue) sleeve and the other with a gules (red) sleeve which jointed to the ground are a tribute to the National flag and therefore, to the Venezolanity and represent the Bolivar and Morillo (Commander of the Royalist Forces) that took place in the town of Santa Ana on 1820, encounter of capital importance for the Emancipation of Venezuela.

The Quarter of the Base enameled in Gules (red), presents mountainous tops in its color accompanied above by two sabers in Or (yellow) crossed in saltire for reminds the blood leaked by the Trujillians in favor of the national sovereignty, shows a representation of the camp of the Battle of Niquitao where the invincible patriot General José Félix Ribas conquered the victory which open the passage to Caracas for the independent forces during the Campana Admirable (The Admirable Campaign) leaded by El Libertador in 1813.

On the center of the field, a diminished fess in Or (yellow) that loads the inscription: ESTADO TRUJILLO (Trujillo State) wrote on silvered letters alludes to the wealth of the Trujillianity.

As external ornaments of the shield are a golden star which represents the ancient Province of Trujillo: One of the seven which declared the Independence of Venezuela on July 5th, 1811.

The bronze extended eagle stand on the star symbolizes the legendary haughtiness and courage of the Trujillian People.

As supports a sugar cane branch and the coffee tree branch at the flanques of the shield represents two of the principal agricultural products of the region and the silvered pennant which laced it, contain the follows ephemeris how mottoes: 15 de Junio de 1813, date of the "War until Death Decree" and 25 de Noviembre de 1820, the day when was signed the "Regularización de la Guerra y Armisticio" (War regulation and armistice) Treaty between the patriots and royalist forces.