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Capital: Porto Alegre
State Population: 9.369.646
Area: 282.062 km2
Economy: agriculture, cattle raising, industry
The flag of the Rio Grande do Sul State
was created during the Farroupilha Revolution. When the Republic
of this state was proclaimed, on 11th September 1836, the revolutionists
immediately pondered on the creation of a self-symbol to substitute
the empire flag.
After the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic (1889) and with
theConstitutional Assembly assembled, the Republican's flag of
1835 was adopted as official symbol of this state.
Only after the time the first Constitution of the State was promulgated(1891),
the coat of arms was added to the flag.
At the present, the Rio Grande do Sul flag is composed by three
parts: the green, the red and the yellow one. The green and the
yellow parts are right-angled triangles separated by a red quadrilateral.
The right-angle of the green triangle is placed on the superior
left-corner of the flag and the right-angle of the yellow triangle
is placed on the inferior right corner of it. There is a vertical
white ellipse with the coat of arms in the middle of it.
The legislation concerning the form and the presentation of this
flag is the state law No. 5.213 of 5th January 1966 which had
some of its articles modified. These amendments were published
in the official journal of the State on 11 th November 1968.
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