Purépecha flag

Purépecha

Use	National flag and ensign
Proportion	10:19
Adopted	1980
Design	Blue, Green, Yellow and Purple colors.

The Purépecha flag is the official flag of the Purépecha people, an Indigenous nation in Michoacán, Mexico. This flag consists of four fields of four colors with a shield and the words Juchari Uinapekua (Our Strength) below the shield. This flag is unique in its kind and emerged in the town of Santa Fe de la Laguna in 1980. It is an ethnic flag of Mexico.

History

The Purépecha flag emerges as a symbol of union and identity with all the Purépecha people, seeking at the same time the organization and struggle of the Purépechas against the new forms of domination and exploitation that constantly attack indigenous and tribal communities. And as a tribute to all the uncles who have fallen by the front of the Purépecha traditions and for the integrality of the communal lands, especially the natives murdered on November 10, 1810 in Colima City by the breeders and white guards of Quiroga, the painter José Luis Soto González designs and paints the purépecha flag that is also part of the p'urhépecha flag making ceremony in the Michoacán community of Santa Fe de la Laguna, in Quiroga municipality, from Monday November 17, 1980 to date.

In the recent year, the Purepecha flag that appeared in 1980 emerged with great force. It is a civil insignia that retakes the colors of the flag and that begins to have a strong presence in the Michoacán, especially in those who speak the Purepecha language. In the absence of a document that regulates the use of this emblem, has taken a number of variants that do not correspond to symbolic ideas and have led to discussions about the historical design of the flag.