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Morelos, Mexico

Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos / Free and Sovereign State of Morelos

Last modified: 2005-05-07 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note: Morelos has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat of arms is broadly used:

Morelos unofficial white flag 4:7[Non-official proportions]
[Defacto flag]
[One or more variants under the same basic design]
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 1, 2002.
See: Coat of arms on white background: unofficial flag

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Presentation of Morelos:
  • Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos / Free and Sovereign State of Morelos
  • Short-form names: Estado de Morelos / State of Morelos; Morelos.
  • Location: The third smallest Federal Entity, above of Distrito Federal and Tlaxcala and featured by its mythic archeologyc places, and its sound climate, Morelos is a landlocked State located Center-South of Mexico. It is surrounded by the States of México (W. and NE), Puebla (E), Guerrero (S),and the Distrito Federal (N).
  • Area: 4,950 km2
  • Municipalities: 33
  • Population: 1'555,296 inhabitants (2000)
  • Capital: Cuernavaca (Pop.: 338,706 [2000])
  • Statehood: April 17, 1869
  • Arms adopted: Unknown date.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

Coat of arms

 Morelos coat of arms
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

The coat of arms consists of a squarish samnitic (“french”) shield, azure, on a mound marron, a maize (corn) plant leved ver and fruited or, under a star of the same metal; between them a scroll argent reading "TIERRA Y LIBERTAD" ("Land and freedom"); bordure argent, lined and tressured sable, with the inscription "LA TIERRA VOLVERA A QUENES LA TRABAJAN CON SUS MANOS" ("The land shall return to those who work (on) it with their own hands"). António Martins, 22 Jun 1999