Flag of the Canary Islands

The flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the coat of arms of the Canary Islands in the central band; the civil flag omits this. The designs were made official by the Statute of Autonomy of the Canarian Autonomous Community (Organic Law 10/82) on 16 August 1982.

History and meaning

The tricolour flag has its origins in the Canarias Libre movement of the 1960s. It was designed by Carmen Sarmiento and her sons Arturo and Jesus Cantero Sarmiento, and first displayed (in paper form) on 8 September 1961. It combined the blue and white colours of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Province of Canary Islands) with the blue and yellow colours of the Province of Las Palmas.^[1] The two dogs represented on flag's seal centered on the flag are Perro de Presa Canarios, or Canary Catch Dogs, that were first bred on the Canary Islands by ranchers who use them to herd and protect their cattle. ^[2]

Colours

The colours of the flag as specified by the Canarian Government are the following:^[3]

	Pantone	CMYK colour model				RGB colour model			Web colours
Colour	Identification	C	M	Y	K	R	G	B	HTML code
White*	Not specified	0%	0%	0%	0%	255	255	255	`#FFFFFF`
Blue	3005	100%	35%	0%	0%	7	104	169	`#0768A9`
Yellow	7406	0%	20%	100%	0%	255	204	0	`#FFCC00`

*Assumed to be pure white due to it not being specified exactly.

Flags of the provinces

Flag of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Flag of Las Palmas

Island flags

Flag of El Hierro
Flag of La Palma
Flag of La Gomera
Flag of Tenerife
Flag of Gran Canaria
Flag of Fuerteventura
Flag of Lanzarote

Other versions

Banner of Kingdom of the Canary Islands under Jean de Béthencourt
Canarian flag proposed by Azarug
"Ateneo Flag", the first Canarian nationalist flag. The seven stars represent the seven islands of the archipelago
The flag proposed by the CIIM.
Flag adopted by the Canarias Libre Movement