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# Municipalities of Tacuarembó Department (Uruguay)

## Municipios del Departamento de Tacuarembó

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Municipalities of Tacuarembó Department (About):

- Ansina
- Caraguatá
  - Coat of arms
  - First flag and logo
- Paso de los Toros
  - Coat of arms
  - Unofficial Flag
- San Gregorio de Polanco
  - Logo

See also:

- Tacuarembó Department
- Departments of Uruguay
- Uruguay

## About municipalities in Tacuarembó Department

The department of Tacuarembó (96,013 inhabitants in 2023) is the largest department of Uruguay and it is part of its northern region. Its capital is Tacuarembó.

## Ansina

Ansina has not adopted any municipal flag it appears, not even an unofficial one. Ansina was created in 2015 through Law N.º 19319 and has its seat in Villa Ansina.

Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

### Logo

image by Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo

The Ansina logo is circular and stylized, depicting a sunset over which two birds are seen; at the bottom are waves especially indicating the Tacuarembó River where it is next to. To the side is a tree indicating the vegetation. At the top, Municipio; and at the bottom Villa Ansina; both are in white with a blue glow.

Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

## Caraguatá

image by Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

based on photo

Caraguatá was established on 23 November 2023 through Decree 36/2023. The initiative for its creation had existed since 2018; during the time of the initiative, a flag had already been adopted in 2020. Its municipal seat is of the same name (Villa Caraguatá) or more commonly as Las Toscas.
Its flag was adopted some time in the second half of 2025 after 11 July 2025, when the council under mayor Dr. Álvaro Mattos was established; and first seen in a public photo on 10 October. Although the flag is not really official, it has effectively replaced the first flag. The current flag is white with the coat of arms over it.

Current flag photo from https://www.facebook.com/photo and drawing using logo at https://www.facebook.com/photo
Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

### Coat of arms

image by Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

The coat of arms was first used sometime between the establishment of the first mayor, Dr. Álvaro Mattos, on 11 July 2025 and sometime in August. The coat of arms is entirely in white to brown shades. It is a shield with a ribbon in the center that extends outwards slightly, reading CARAGUATÁ. Above this, five pillars supporting a roof indicate the government; finally, above this it reads MUNICIPIO DE (Municipality of).
The lower half of the shield depicts a caraguatá plant (Bromelia balansae) as its namesake, found in front of the sun. Under the shield, words are arched to read "EL MÁS GRANDE DE LA PATRIA" (The Biggest of the Fatherland), alluding to both the Tacuarembó motto (El pago más grande de la patria; pago roughly meaning "countryland") and the fact Caraguatá is the biggest Municipality of Uruguay.

Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

### First flag and logo

image by Birk Høj Mortensen, 23 April 2026
based on photo

Former logo

images by Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

During the time of the initiative for its creation starting in 2018, its first flag was officially hoisted on 18 September 2020 at 3 PM (though hoisted for the first time a few days before, likely on 14 September); it was created through a contest starting in December 2019. This flag also had a more official status, being used by the temporary local council established by 2024 until the official municipal government was established on 11 July 2025 under Dr. Álvaro Mattos. The symbol on the flag was also used as a logo. Unfortunately, I do not know the designer of the flag.
The first flag depicts, over a light green field, a map of Tacuarembó outlined in a darker green. Inside of the map is also a map of a light but darker field of green, over which a caraguatá plant (Bromelia balansae) grows over the dark soil; representing its name origin (specifically from the arroyo of the same name derived from the same plant) and agricultural economy.
To the right side, an open book for wisdom emerges telling the historic past, over which a green bridge over water is found. Golden rays emerge from the bridge. This bridge is a reminder that the municipal seat was known as Paso de las Toscas (a pass), indicating that it was one of the main spots where wagons could easily pass over the arroyo.

First flag drawing including logo from image at https://www.facebook.com/photo and flag photo at https://www.facebook.com/photo

Daniel Rentería, 19 December 2025

## Paso de los Toros

Paso de los Toros is the second largest city in Tacuarembó. Though it was established as a town under the name of Santa Isabel on 17 July 1903, it was renamed on 20 November 1929 through Law N.º 8.523 and received the status of villa. From what I can see, Paso de los Toros does not have an official flag.
Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025

### Coat of arms

image by Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo

The coat of arms was designed by the colonel Raúl Naranja Vaz and created through a contest, being presented in an Act in 1977.
Description from https://municipiopasodelostoros.gub.uy/institucional/:

1. The upper ribbon highlights, in the first field, the name of the city and in the second field, the old name Santa Isabel.
2. Location of the city in the country. It is found in the heart, general form of the emblem of Uruguay. It is identified by the bow and the colors blue and white and is found in the point of the shield.
3. The branches that surround it, to the right laurel, symbol of glory, triumph, and conquests; to the left the olive, symbol of peace and harmony [appears to be the same on both sides in modern versions].
4. Paso de los Toros is a city that has history, as the scroll indicates over the white field of purity, in which three dates are read: 1885 first division into a grid system, 1903 is designated with the name of Santa Isabel, and 1929 year in which it became known as Paso de los Toros.
5. The hands which stretch out give the idea of friendship and fraternity between its inhabitants and for those who visit us.
6. From the hands, the shamrock of four leaves emerges, luck, joy, and happiness. The ear of wheat, work and wealth obtained by four important to-dos for the inhabitants represented by the four leaves of the ear, the red leaf cattle-raising [note: modern versions have modified this], the green agriculture, the blue fishing, and the yellow energy. The feather symbolizes culture, without which progress cannot be obtained.
7. The diagonal ray signals the important electric energy generated by the four turbines. The blue background is the water, dam attended in its majority by Isabelinos.
8. The violet rim of the shield, indicates the modesty with which the inhabitants of Paso de los Toros should be characterized.
9. The yellow of the upper ribbon, just as the blue of the letters which participate in the face and sporting colors of our city.
10. The blue background of the lower part, indicates that we have an important stream of water.
11. The bridges, furthermore with their existence, signal with their convergence the important knot of communication in which our city is found.
12. The pejerrey, a fine fish which highlights the tourist face as a real possibility, and the anchor for navigation which we have also in a small scale.

Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025

### Unofficial Flag

image by Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025
based on photo at https://www.facebook.com/photo

Paso de los Toros does not have an official flag that is known. As a placeholder especially at sporting events, a white flag with the logo is used but is not official. Sometimes, local residents use a yellow flag with a logo (of Liga Isabelina de Fútbol) over it and with the name PASO DE LOS TOROS; this is only an Isabelina league sporting flag, however.
Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025

## San Gregorio de Polanco

image by Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025
based on photo at https://maps.app.goo.gl

The flag of San Gregorio de Polanco flies in front of the municipal building. It is white with the logo centered upon it (as seen on Google Maps in 2015). Specifically, it is a version of the logo which has the text MUNICIPIO and SAN GREGORIO DE POLANCO above; with the motto Ciudad Museo underneath. It reads this motto as the Municipality has the first open-air visual arts museum in the country, established in 1993.
Note: it is unclear if this same version is still used to this day.
Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025

### Logo

image by Daniel Rentería, 20 December 2025
Source: https://municipiosangregorio.com.uy

San Gregorio de Polanco does not have a coat of arms. Instead, it uses a logo. The logo depicts three rectangles with a pointed end, each rectangle not being connected; in order, yellow, blue, and green. Possibly, this represents a building. Each rectangle has an initial of the Municipality (SGP). It is clear that the logo is a representation of the artistic nature of the area, especially in its museums. To the side or at the bottom, often it reads: MUNICIPIO DE SAN GREGORIO DE POLANCO.