Flag of the Hispanic people

Flag of the Hispanicity

Bandera de la Hispanidad
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	12 October 1932;93 years ago (1932-10-12)
Design	A white banner with three purple crosses pattée and the Sun of May rising from behind the center one.
Designed by	Ángel Camblor

The flag of the Hispanic people (Spanish : Bandera de la Hispanidad , flag of the Hispanicity) is an ethnic flag used to represent the Hispanic people or Hispanic community.

Symbolism

The flag of the Hispanicity displays a white background with three purple crosses and a rising sun.

• The white field or background symbolizes peace and purity.
• The golden Sun of May evokes the indigenous god Inti and symbolizes the awakening of the new lands.
• The three crosses pattée symbolize Christopher Columbus's three ships, the Niña , the Pinta , and the Santa María .
• The Purpure color of the crosses represents the Spanish language and comes from the ancient use of this color in the lion of the Kingdom of León's flag, which was later incorporated with the Crown of Castile. ^[1]

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Universe 2025	Thailand – Praveenar Singh
1st Runner Up	Côte d'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé
2nd Runner Up	Ecuador – Nadia Mejía
3rd Runner Up	Latina – Yamilex Hernández
4th Runner Up	Chile – Inna Moll
Top 10	Colombia – Vanessa Pulgarín Guadeloupe – Ophély Mézino Haiti – Melissa Sapini Philippines – Ahtisa Manalo Puerto Rico – Zashely Alicea
Top 30	Angola – Maria Cunha Argentina – Aldana Masset Bolivia – Yessica Hausermann Canada – Jaime VandenBerg Costa Rica – Mahyla Roth Cuba – Lina Luaces Curaçao – Camille Thomas Denmark – Monique Sonne India – Manika Vishwakarma Indonesia – Sanly Liu Laos – Lattana Munvilay Mexico – Fátima Bosch Palestine – Nadeen Ayoub § Peru – Karla Bacigalupo Portugal – Camila Vitorino South Africa – Melissa Nayimuli Turks and Caicos Islands – Bereniece Dickenson United States – Audrey Eckert Venezuela – Stephany Abasali Vietnam – Hương Giang Nguyễn

§ – Voted into the Top 30 by viewers

Alternative use as the flag of the Americas

Alternative version of the flag used to represent the Americas

The flag is also sometimes occasionally alternately used to represent the entire geographical area of the Americas and not just as a flag of the Hispanic American people. ^{[2] [3]} The flag was officially adopted as the flag of the Americas—in this usage representing, besides Hispanic Americans, also Anglo-Americans, Franco-Americans (the Québécois, Haitians, Guadeloupians, Martininqians, and French Guianians), Luso-Americans, Dutch Americans (the inhabitants of the Dutch Antilles and Suriname), and Greenlanders—by all member countries of the Pan-American Conference at their Seventh Assembly in 1933. ^[4]

See also

• Hispanidad
• Hispanismo
• La Raza

References

1. Cervera, César (2020-07-21). "La bandera olvidada que representa a toda la Hispanidad" [The forgotten flag that represents all of the Hispanicity]. ABC (in Spanish). ISSN   1695-2936. Archived from the original on 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
2. Grosvenor, Gilbert; Showalter, William J. (September 1934). "Flags of the World". The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. 66, no. 3. pp. 361, 364, 367. ISSN   0027-9358. OCLC   643483454 . Retrieved 2022-04-10– via Internet Archive. This flag, with its three wine-colored crosses and its sun of the Incas, was hoisted on October 12, 1932 in the Plaza Independencia in Montevideo. It was officially recognized and dedicated by supreme decree by the governments of Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia and Peru. All of the nations of the Americas hoisted it shortly thereafter.
3. Harden, Zachary, ed. (2021-08-27). "Flag of the Race". Flags of the World . Archived from the original on 2021-10-14. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
4. "Bandera de las Américas (Séptima Conferencia Internacional Americana, Montevideo – 1933)" [Flag of the Americas (Seventh International American Conference, Montevideo – 1933)]. Derecho Internacional (in Spanish). 2013-01-29. Archived from the original on 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2022-04-10.