The Secret History Behind Bolivia's Flag
Bolivia is one of the few countries with two official flags.
The red, yellow and green tricolor dates from 1851, in the government of Manuel Isidoro Belzu. Red is read as the valor of the army, yellow as the country's mineral wealth and green as the fertility of the land. The state flag carries the national arms at the center, while the civil flag is just the three stripes.
The second is the Wiphala, a flag of 49 squares in seven colors, a symbol of the Andean peoples. The Constitution of 2009 established it as a dual flag together with the tricolor.
The date printed on every Bolivia design in our catalog, August 6, 1825, is Independence Day.
Two flags, two histories, and one country that carries both.
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