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This is a list of flags used in Chile. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Chile.
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1818– | National flag, state flag, state ensign, civil ensign and war ensign | Three cantons. In superior level, a blue square to the left with a white five-ponted star within, and a white rectangle to the right. In the inferior level, a red rectangle. |
![]() | 1818– | Flag of Chile (vertical) |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1920– (creation) 1967– (Legal regulation) | Presidential flag | A flag of Chile with the Chilean coat of arms in the center. |
![]() | Ambassador flag | A blue flag with white and red nordic cross and a white star in the canton. Used as a pennant on a car. | |
![]() | Flag of the Ministry of National Defense | A dark blue flag with the Chilean coat of arms in the center. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Chilean Army | A red flag with the army emblem in the center. | |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1945- | Naval jack | A squared blue flag with a star in the center |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Chilean Air Force | A sky blue flag with the coat of arms of Chilean Air Force in the center. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Carabineros de Chile |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | Flag of the Corporación Nacional de Vexilología de Chile |
Flag | Administrative division | Adopted | Description | |
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![]() | ![]() | Arica and Parinacota | 2008 | White flag with the Regional Government logo in the center. |
![]() | ![]() | Atacama | 1859 (in revolution), 1996- | Flag of Atacama |
![]() | ![]() | Antofagasta | Blue flag with the Regional Intendance logo | |
![]() | ![]() | Aysén | 2013 | White flag with the regional coat of arms in the center |
![]() | ![]() | Biobío | White flag with the regional coat of arms in the center. | |
![]() | ![]() | Coquimbo | 2013 | Blue flag with a white star in the left down corner. To the top, in the middle, a yellow sun and a light blue sky. In the right superior side, a green land with dark green bands. |
![]() | ![]() | La Araucanía | Three horizontal stripes (blue, white and red) with the regional coat of arms in the center. | |
![]() | ![]() | Los Lagos | 2013 | Flag of Los Lagos |
![]() | ![]() | Los Ríos | 2008 | Flag of Los Ríos Region |
![]() | ![]() | Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region | 1997 | Flag of Magallanes |
![]() | ![]() | Maule | 2002 (last modification) | White flag with the regional coat of arms in the center. |
![]() | ![]() | Ñuble | 2018 | White flag with the regional coat of arms in the center. |
![]() | ![]() | O'Higgins | White flag with the regional coat of arms in the center. | |
![]() | ![]() | Santiago Metropolitan Region | 2013 | Dark grey flag with the Regional Government logo in the center. |
![]() | ![]() | Tarapacá | 2008 | White flag with the coat of arms of Tarapacá Region in the center. |
![]() | ![]() | Valparaíso | Blue flag with the regional coat of arms in the center. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 2014 | Unofficial flag of Arica y Parinacota Region es | |
![]() | 1990s | Unofficial flag of Araucanía Region | |
![]() | Unofficial flag of Bío-Bío Region | ||
![]() | 2014 | Unofficial flag of Chilean glaciers | |
![]() | - | Unofficial flag of Chiloé Archipelago | |
![]() | 2015 | Flag of Juan Fernández Islands | |
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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current | |||
![]() | 2019–present | Estallido Social protests | |
![]() | 1988–present | National Renewal | |
![]() | 1983–present | Independent Democratic Union | |
![]() | 1979–present | Chilean Communist Party | |
![]() | 1965–present | Revolutionary Left Movement | |
![]() | 1957–present | Christian Democratic Party | |
![]() | 1933–present | Socialist Party of Chile | |
![]() | 1912–present | Communist Party of Chile | |
former | |||
![]() | 2014-2018 | Amplitude | |
![]() | 2013-2018 | Nueva Mayoría | |
![]() | 2008-2012 | Front of the National Order es | |
![]() | 2004-2008 | National Socialist Movement of Chilean Workers es | |
![]() | 1999-2010 | New Fatherland Society es | |
![]() | 1990-2002 | Union of the Centrist Center | |
![]() | 1988-2013 | Concertación | |
![]() | 1983-1987 | National Union Movement | |
![]() | 1973-1989 | MAPU Obrero Campesino | |
![]() | 1971-2013 | Citizen Left | |
![]() | 1969-1994 | Popular Unitary Action Movement | |
![]() | 1973 | Popular Unity | |
![]() | 1972–1973 | ||
![]() | 1969–1972 | ||
![]() | 1966-1994 | National Party | |
![]() | 1952-1983 | Revolutionary National Syndicalist Movement es | |
![]() | 1945-1958 | Agrarian Labor Party | |
![]() | 1932-1938 | National Socialist Movement of Chile | |
![]() | 1849-1966 | Liberal Party | |
other | |||
![]() | 2007-2009 | Revolutionary Anarchist Front | |
![]() | 1983–1999 | Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front | |
![]() | 1982-1994 | Lautaro Youth Movement | |
![]() | 1968-1971 | Organized Vanguard of the People es | |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1991–present | Wenufoye, the Flag of Mapuche people | Five horizontal strips. In the top and down, two black stripes with twelve white gemil ("diamonds") each one. In the center, three light blue, green and red stripes. In the center, a yellow kultrun ("ceremonial drum") with red lines and pictures. |
![]() | 2006–present | Reimiro, the Flag of Rapa Nui people | White field with a red Reimiro (a traditional religious figure sculpted in wood). |
![]() | 2006–present | Flag of Aymara people | Wiphala |
![]() | 2012–present | Flag of Alacaluf people | Two blue and green triangles divided by a white sash. In the blue triangle, a brown 8-point star. In the green triangle, a human figure made with brown circles. |
![]() | 2016–present | Flag of Selk'nam people | 2 Horizontal stripes of dark red and white with a black lance in the center and 4 golden 6-pointed stars in the canton. |
![]() | 2020–present | Flag of Chango people | Three stripes with marine and reddish colors. A central element that groups together the activities of the town and representative silhouettes of the coastal mountain range and the waves of the sea. Nine white dots accompany the central circle. |
![]() | 2017–present | Flag of Colla people in Chile | Four horizontal stripes yellow, white, black and red. |
![]() | 2018–present | Flag of Diaguita people | |
![]() | - | Flag of Yaghan people | |
![]() | 2020–present | Flag of Afro-Chileans people |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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![]() | 1506–1701 16th and 17th centuries | Mapuche military flag during the Arauco War | Blue field with a guñelve (eight-pointed star). |
![]() | ?–1557 | Mapuche flag, used by Lautaro forces, in Arauco War | Light blue gemil with a guñelve star bordered by black triangles |
![]() | 1541–1785 | Burgundy Cross, flag of the Spanish forces in Arauco War and flag of the Spanish Overseas Territories | A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field. |
![]() | 1785–1812, 1814–1817 | Spanish national flag and war ensign | |
![]() | 19th Century | Selk'nam people Flag | This version of the Selk'nam flag was created in a sewing workshop in the late 19th century by Selk'nam girls and women at the Salesian Mission of San Rafael on Dawson Island, Chile. The design of this flag responds to the fact that according to their mythology when they died they became stars. |
![]() | 1812–1814 | First National Flag, also called Bandera de la Patria Vieja ("Old Fatherland Flag") | Three horizontal strips blue, white and yellow. |
![]() | 1812–1814 | Alternative version of the First Chilean flag | Different order of the strips, with the first Chilean coat of arms and a red Cruz de Santiago (Cross of St. James) in the top left corner. |
![]() | 1814–1817 | Flag of the Andes, ensign of the Army of the Andes, now the provincial flag of Mendoza (Argentina) | Two rectangles, white and light blue, with the coat of arms in the center. |
![]() | 1817–1818 | Second National Flag, now also called Bandera de Transición ("Transitory flag") | Tricolour similar to flag of Yugoslavia, Three horizontal strips blue, white and red. |
![]() | 1818, only a few days | Alternative flag | Tricolour similar to flag of Russia, Three horizontal strips white, blue and red, with a white star in blue strip. |
![]() | 1818–1834 | First design of the actual flag, also called Bandera de la Independencia ("Independence Flag") | Similar to flags of Texas, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, and to actual ensign for Chilean Independence flag, with the coat of arms in the center, and a black eight-pointed star within the white five-pointed star. |
![]() | 1820–1822 | Flag used in Liberating Expedition of Peru | |
![]() | 1826–1854 | Civil flag | |
![]() | 1860–1862 | Flag of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia | Three horizontal strips blue, white and green. |
![]() | 1880–1888 | Flag of the Kingdom of Easter Island | Similar to actual Reimiro flag, with four black manutaras (mythological bird) in each corner. |
![]() | 1888–1902 | Flag of the Kingdom of Easter Island | Similar to the flag of Chile, with white and red fields reversed, and the star in the blue canton replaced by Christian and traditional Rapa Nui symbols. Used during the first years after the annexation until the arrival of the ship Baquedano in 1902. |
![]() | 1860s | A recreation of Dutrou-Bornier's flag. |
Flag | Date | Use | Descpription |
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![]() | Flag of CSAV | ||
![]() | Flag of Compañía Chilena de Navegación Interoceánica es | ||
Flag | Club |
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![]() | Cofradía Náutica del Pacífico Austral |
![]() | Club de Yates Algarrobo |
![]() | Club de Yates El Quisco |
![]() | Club de Yates Higuerillas |
![]() | Yacht Club de Chile |
Flag | Base | Descpription |
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![]() | Captain Arturo Prat | Plain white field charged with the coat of arms of the base. |
The flag of Chile consists of two equal-height horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center. It was adopted on 18 October 1817. The Chilean flag is also known in Spanish as La Estrella Solitaria.
Chillán is the capital city of the Ñuble Region in the Diguillín Province of Chile located about 400 km (249 mi) south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the geographical center of the country. It is the capital of the new Ñuble Region since 6 September 2015. Within the city are a railway station, an inter-city bus terminal named María Teresa, and a regimental military base. The city includes a modern-style enclosed shopping mall in addition to the multi-block open-air street market where fruits, vegetables, crafts and clothing are sold. The nearby mountains are a popular destination for skiing and hot spring bathing.
Río Negro is a province of Argentina, located in northern Patagonia. Neighboring provinces are from the south clockwise Chubut, Neuquén, Mendoza, La Pampa and Buenos Aires. To the east lies the Atlantic Ocean.
The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who share a common social, religious, and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage as Mapudungun speakers. Their homelands once extended from Choapa Valley to the Chiloé Archipelago and later spread eastward to Puelmapu, a land comprising part of the Argentine pampa and Patagonia. Today the collective group makes up over 80% of the indigenous peoples in Chile and about 9% of the total Chilean population. The Mapuche are concentrated in the Araucanía region. Many have migrated from rural areas to the cities of Santiago and Buenos Aires for economic opportunities, more than 92% of the Mapuches are from Chile.
The flag of Peru was adopted by the government of Peru in 1825, and modified in 1950. According to the article 49 of the Constitution of Peru, it is a vertical triband with red outer bands and a single white middle band. Depending on its use, it may be defaced with different emblems, and has different names. Flag day in Peru is celebrated on 7 June, the anniversary of the Battle of Arica.
The Araucanía, La Araucanía Region is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions, and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south. Its capital and largest city is Temuco; other important cities include Angol and Villarrica.
The Gününa küna, or sometimes, Puelche are indigenous peoples living east of the Andes Mountains in Chile and Southwest Argentina. They spoke the Puelche language. The name "Puelche" was not native, but was given to them by the Mapuche. They were annihilated by plagues and epidemics in the late 18th century, with survivors merging into other groups such as the Mapuche, Het, and Tehuelche.
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Chilean mythology includes the mythology, beliefs and folklore of the Chilean people.
The Occupation of Araucanía or Pacification of Araucanía (1861–1883) was a series of military campaigns, agreements and penetrations by the Chilean army and settlers into Mapuche territory which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chilean national territory. Pacification of Araucanía was the expression used by the Chilean authorities for this process. The conflict was concurrent with Argentine campaigns against the Mapuche (1878–1885) and Chile's wars with Spain (1865–1866) and with Peru and Bolivia (1879–1883).
Pehuenche are an indigenous people of South America. They live in the Andes, primarily in present-day south central Chile and adjacent Argentina. Their name derives from their dependence for food on the seeds of the Araucaria araucana or monkey-puzzle tree. In the 16th century, the Pehuenche lived in the mountainous territory from approximately 34 degrees to 40 degrees south. Later they became Araucanized and partially merged with the Mapuche peoples. In the 21st century, they still retain some of their ancestral lands.
Santa Bárbara is a Chilean city and commune in Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region. In 2004 a great portion of its territory was taken off to form the new commune of Alto Bío Bío.
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The flag of Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region is one of the regional symbols of the Chilean Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region. The flag was adopted in 1997 by the regional government, along with the Regional Coat of Arms.
Mapuche flag is each of the flags used as an emblem and symbol of the Mapuche Nation and the Mapuche communities and organizations in Chile and Argentina. There are several different flags representing the Mapuche communities and territories.
Curiñancu or Curignancu was a Mapuche Toqui from 1766–1774 who led the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Galletué Lake, also spelled as Gualletué Lake, is located in the Andes of the La Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Issuing from the lake on its eastern side is one of the two sources of the Biobío River, the other being nearby Icalma Lake. The lake is in the ecoregion of the Valdivian Temperate Rain Forest. The monkey-puzzle tree locally called "pehuen" is the most distinctive of the tree species in the forest.
The last major rebellion of the indigenous Mapuches of Araucanía took place in 1881, during the last phase of the Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883) by the Chilean state. It was planned by Mapuche chiefs in March 1881 to be launched in November the same year. Mapuche support for the uprising was not unanimous: Some Mapuche factions sided with the Chileans and others declared themselves neutral. The organizers of the uprising did however succeed in involving Mapuche factions that had not previously been at war with Chile. With most of the attacks repelled within a matters of days Chile went on the next years to consolidate its conquests.
The Mapuche uprising of 1766 was the last major Spanish–Mapuche conflict in Araucanía.