Artigas flag
| Proportion | 2:3 |
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| Adopted |
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| Designed by | José Gervasio Artigas and José María de Roo |
| Use | Early version |
| Adopted | c. 1914 |
The Artigas flag is a flag created in the early 19th century by the South American libertador and political leader José Gervasio Artigas. It was originally designed to be the national flag of the Federal League, a confederation of provinces that briefly existed 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. 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.