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| Mexican Flags / Banderas Mexicanas
While the Flag of the Estados Unidos de Mexico wasn’t established officially in its form until 1821, it depicts a story of Mexico's culture from the ancient people known as the Aztecs.
Supposedly in 1325 long before most of North America was “discovered” the Aztecs were populating the area known as Mexico today with a relatively great civilization.
The story goes that the Aztecs received a vision from “Huitzilopochtli”, one of their many “gods” that told them they would know where to build their central city or “zocólalo”, the empire of
“Tenochtitlan” ("Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus") when they saw what is today depicted on the Mexican Flag.
They were told that when they saw an Eagle perched on a Nopal cactus with a serpent (rattle snake) in its talon, located on an island, this is where they should begin to build their permanent city. They supposedly did encounter this on an island in the middle of a lake (Lake Anáhuac) now known today as México City.
This is where Mexico City currently stands today. This is also why through the many years that as the Aztecs and eventually the Spaniards and now Mexicans developed Mexico City, it is sinking into the earth.
The green-white-red tricolor was first seen in 1821 and was know as the “Sierra”. The name was given to it by the Indians of the sierra of Veracruz and Puebla.
It was not officially adopted by Mexico until April 14th, 1823. Meaning of the colors:
Green is for hope and victory.
White is for the purity of our ideals.
Red is for the blood our national heroes shed.
The Mexico Flag is most prominently flown on “Dias de Bandera” which is the Mexican Flag Day, February 24th and also on México’s Independence Day, the 16th of September, known as "El Grito" or the shout for independence.
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