The symbols of

Tequixquiac Tequixquiac is a municipalities of Mexico, municipality located in the Zumpango Region of the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipality is located north of Mexico City within the valley that connects the Valley of Mexico with the Mezquital Vall ...

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, were adopted as oficial symbols of the municipality in 2003.

Coat of arms

The image of a water channel is represented on the Tequixquiac shield, with tequesquite and two volutes of water. Officially, the toponym glyph of the town of Tequixquiac was authorized as a municipal shield, it is the first symbol that the municipality acquires, it was stylized and formalized under the guidelines of the state government (without pigments and with more defined lines) for use on official letterhead and seal of every document sent within the municipality, this glyph is also called the municipal shield, chapter 3 of the ''Bando Municipal'' describes the characteristics of said emblem. The name comes from

Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...

and means "place of

tequesquite Tequesquite or tequexquite (from Nahuatl ''tequixquitl'') is a natural mineral salt containing compounds of sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulphate, used in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times mainly as a food seasoning. It is found nat ...

waters". The origin of the word Tequixquiac dates back to the pre-Hispanic period, its translation derives from Nahuatl language, it means from Nahua words; ''tequixquitl'' = tequesquite (saltpeter), ''atl'' = water and ''-co'' = place.

History

Historically, the municipality lacked its own official symbols; During a state program, in

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, Tequixquiac adopted an official glyph or letterhead, alluding to the Nahuatl name of the municipality, for official use; The glyph is represented by a cut of a channel in the shape of a tequexquite without pigments, a symbol taken from the tribute codex.

Flag

The flag of Tequixquiac, the respective flag of the

Municipality, and flag of certain seat departments. The flag is a vertical

tricolor A triband is a vexillological style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag. These stripes may be two or three colours, and may be charged with an emblem in the middle stripe. Not all tribands are tricolour flags, which requires t ...

lime green Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called lime (fruit), limes. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse (color), chartreuse and yellow on ...

white White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...

, and

blue Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB color model, RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB color model, RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between Violet (color), violet and cyan on the optical spe ...

and charged in the center bar with the coat of arms of Tequixquiac in black. The tricolor design is derived from the flag of the

Flag of Mexico The national flag, national flag of Mexico () is a vertical Tricolour (flag), tricolor of green, white, and red with Coat of arms of Mexico, the national coat of arms charge (heraldry), charged in the center of the white stripe. While the meani ...

in 2017.

References

External links

Flag of Tequixquiac (Flags of the World)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Symbols of Tequixquiac Symbols of the State of Mexico Tequixquiac

Flags with blue, green and white Municipal coats of arms in Mexico