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| Bandera de la Hispanidad | |
| Proportion | 1:2 |
|---|---|
| Adopted | 12 October 1932 |
| Design | A white banner with three purple crosses pattée and the Sun of May rising from behind the center one. |
| Designed by | Ángel Camblor |
The flag of the Hispanic people (Spanish : Bandera de la Hispanidad , flag of the Hispanicity) is an ethnic flag used to represent the Hispanic people or Hispanic community.
The flag of the Hispanicity displays a white background with three purple crosses and a rising sun.
The flag was designed by Ángel Camblor, a captain of the Uruguayan Army. He was the winner of a contest organized by Juana de Ibarbourou in 1932. The flag was first raised in Montevideo, at the Independence Square, on 12 October 1932.
The flag was formerly known as the "flag of the Hispanic race" (Spanish : Bandera de la raza hispánica).
The flag is also sometimes used to represent the entire geographical area of the Americas and not just as a flag of the Hispanic American people. [2] [3] The flag was officially adopted as the flag of the Americas—in this usage representing, besides Hispanic Americans, also Anglo-Americans, Franco-Americans (the Québécois, Haitians, Guadeloupians, Martininqians, and French Guianians), Luso-Americans, Dutch Americans (the inhabitants of the Dutch Antilles and Suriname), and Greenlanders—by all member countries of the Pan-American Conference at their Seventh Assembly in 1933. [4]
This flag, with its three wine-colored crosses and its sun of the Incas, was hoisted on October 12, 1932 in the Plaza Independencia in Montevideo. It was officially recognized and dedicated by supreme decree by the governments of Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia and Peru. All of the nations of the Americas hoisted it shortly thereafter.