Colima, Mexico

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

Last modified: 2005-03-05 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note: Colima has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat of arms is broadly used:

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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001. See: Coat of arms on white background: unofficial flags

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  Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán October 9, 2001

• Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima / Free and Sovereign State of Colima
• Short-form names: Estado de Colima / State of Colima; Colima.
• Location: Western of Mexico. It is surrounded by the States of Michoacán de Ocampo (SW), and Jalisco (N); and bathed by the Pacific Ocean.
• Area: 5,433 km²
• Municipalities: 10
• Population: 542,627 inhabitants
• Capital: Colima (Pop.: 129,958 [2000])
• Statehood: February 5, 1857
• Arms adopted: Unknown date.

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Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

Argent (?) a mayan hieroglyph (see meaning bellow) proper, bordure gules; helmut azure with penache sable; supporters (?) two pumas issuant and sitting on a [something] sable, each holding sinister a flowering branch with coiled snake and dexter a seashell (Murex?); compartment a vulcano sable with a dentalion flower (?); scroll or, reading in two lines of serif capitals sable "EL TEMPLE DEL BRAZO ES VIGOR EN LA TIERRA", with "DE" digraph and "O" reduced to superscript underscore.
António Martins, 01 Sep 1999

Some histians agree that the word Colima comes from Colliman, the name by which was known the old kingdom that dominated this coastal regi