JUNE 3, 2025 — The town of Rincón, in Argentina’s Río Segundo Department, has launched a participatory process to create its official flag, according to a report by the Córdoba Interior Informa.
The initiative is part of the province-wide program “Nuestra Bandera,” which aims to ensure that each of Córdoba’s 427 municipalities and communes eventually adopts its own official emblem. Currently, only around 140 have done so.
As part of the process in Rincón, intensive flag design workshops are being held with local schools, community institutions, and residents. These sessions, titled “Taller Intensivo de Comunicación y Creación de Banderas”, are led by Cristian Baquero Lazcano, a prominent national figure in vexillology and director of the Asociación Argentina de Ceremonial y Protocolo (ASARP). His role is to provide historical, symbolic, and technical guidance so that the flag becomes a product of broad community input rather than top-down design.
“Flags are not born in an office, they are born in the collective soul of a community,” said Baquero Lazcano.
“They are symbolic pacts between past and present, condensing what we were, what we are, and what we dream to be.”The town, founded in 1797, is preparing to celebrate its 228th anniversary in 2025.
