Argentina Flag

On February 18, 1812, the first Triumvirate instituted the use of the National Cockade of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. The cockade was created during May Revolution of 1810 by Domingo French and Antonio Luis Beruti and was a symbol of revolution against the Spanish. It is not known why French and Beruti chose the light blue and white colors, but the most accurate theory says that those colors represented the Bourbon dynasty, supporters of the constitutional monarchy.

Argentina's flag was created after the National Cockade. On February 27, 1812, General Manuel Belgrano and his army hoisted the flag for the first time, in Rosario (province of Santa Fe), on the banks of the river Paraná.

Belgrano ordered to create the flag with the colors of the cockade. It is said that María Catalina Echevarría de Vidal was commissioned to manufacture it.

The city of Rosario is known as the "The Flag's Birthplace". On June 20, 1957 The National Historic Monument to the Flag was inaugurated near the shore of the Paraná River.

At first, the government did not accept the flag for reasons of international politics. Finally, four years later, and after independence on July 9, 1816, the Congress of Tucumán adopted the National flag.

In Buenos Aires, the flag was hoisted for the first time on August 23, 1812, in the tower of the church of San Nicolas de Bari, where now stands the Obelisk.

The flag of Argentina is composed of three horizontal stripes. . The top and bottom stripes are light blue and the center is white. On February 25, 1818 the Congress of Tucumán ordered that the flag should have a yellow sun on the white stripe.

The Day of the National Flag it is celebrated on June 20, due to the anniversary of Belgrano's death

in 1820.