Artigas flag

Artigas Flag

Proportion	2:3
Adopted	January 13, 1815; 210 years ago (1815-01-13) (as flag of Federal League) September 1820; 204 years ago (1820-09) (as flag of Republic of Entre Ríos) February 18, 1952; 72 years ago (1952-02-18) (as flag of Uruguay) March 13, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-03-13) (as flag of Entre Ríos)
Designed by	José Gervasio Artigas and José María de Roo
Use	Early version
Adopted	c. 1914

The Artigas flag is a flag used in the early 19th century by the South American military and political leader José Gervasio Artigas. Originally the national flag of the League of the Free Peoples between 1815 and 1820. Since 1952, it has been one of the national flags of Uruguay and since 1987, the flag of the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.^[1] The flag consists of a white horizontal stripe between two blue and red bend. The blue and white stripes come from the flag created by Manuel Belgrano, while the red was added as a symbol of the fight for federalism.