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# La Paz Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina

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## Department

La Paz is a department located in the south of Catamarca Province in Argentina.

It has 2 municipalities:

- Icaño
- Recreo

## Recreo

image by Valentin Poposki, 24 December 2023

The Municipality of Recreo is the seat of the Department of La Paz. Its symbols were adopted in 1986:
Its unusual shield is the original creation of Segundo Felindor Pineda, and was approved by the local Deliberative Council on December 19, 1986 by means of CDMR Ordinance No. 052/86. Its heraldic form is Polish in style; divided into strips and divided into seven fields in total.
"On the chief's sash, the first cut upper tapestry of lower azure of its color, with two mountains on the horizon and a wheel with eight spokes gules. The second with a dry tree of its color and a saber cross on the left on a tapestry of its color. The third similar to the first with the saber wheel on a log of the same.
In the strip in the right canton four leafed trees of green trunks of their color on a tapestry of their color.
In the heart the profile of a factory gules with two smoking chimneys of saber.
The sinister canton with an irregular silver stain on a sable tapestry.
At the tip there is a strip of azure and silver .
At the bell, a golden rising sun with thirteen rays of different lengths, which decrease from the center to the sides."
The symbology of the shield, according to the same source, but with a text evidently written by the author of the shield or at least by natives of Recreo:
"Its shape is that of a Polish shield; It was chosen because the Holy Father John Paul II, a native of Poland, wants and seeks Peace so much, and since we live in the Department of La Paz , that was the reason for the choice.
The chief's dexter canton represents the passing of the carts, a big part of our history. It is here where the passengers recreated and the animals were changed, hence the old or first name of our town El Recreo de las Carretas. When it rained a lot in Las Salinas and became impassable, they would stay for several days, not missing big dances and barbecues. In the background our beloved hill.
In the center of the boss there is a dry tree and a cross, which symbolizes the old black carob tree where Fray Mamerto Esquiú died on January 10, 1883
In the sinister canton of the chief, the wheel of a woodshed represents the very birth of the town, since with the arrival of the first train and as there was no founding document, the year 1875 was the birth of Recreo.
On the right flank there is a forest: it symbolizes the raw material most coveted by man in the area, firewood and charcoal; These turned the Department of La Paz into an unbeatable market .
On the sinister flank the leather symbolizes cattle and goats since it has great importance in the economy of the area.
In the center, the profile of a factory represents the modern industries located in our jurisdiction.
In the center of the tip, the national flag.
The thirteen rays of the sun represent the districts into which the Department is divided, while the blue part that separates the cantons represents the irrigation canal of the Bazán River.
The local flag has three vertical stripes of green, white and yellow, with the municipal shield in the center of the white field.
https://heraldicaargentina.blogspot.com/2023/01/escudo-de-recreo-catamarca.html

Valentin Poposki, 24 December 2023

## Icaño

image by Birk Høj Mortensen, 25 April 2026
based on photo located by Valentin Poposki, 24 December 2023

The Municipality of Icano, in the Department of La Paz, introduced its municipal flag during the celebration of the 248th Anniversary of the town foundation on 4th of November 2019.
It is vertically divided in three fields white-blue-green, with symbolic two hands and a white dove in the blue field
The flag can be seen on many photos on the municipal Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Valentin Poposki, 24 December 2023