San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines flag redesign

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Green: Represents the fertility of the land, the surrounding rice terraces, and the lush hills that define the city’s natural environment. It also stands for the ecological thinking of the people of the city, now known for renewable energy leadership and sustainable development.

Yellow: Represents prosperity and economic stability resulting from the blessings of a good harvest as a result of hard work.

Red: Is multi-meaning: first, the courage and sacrifice of San Carlos’s guerrilla fighters during World War II, who resisted Japanese occupation; second, the fiery presence of Mount Kanlaon to the city’s west, a landmark that has shaped its geography and resilience.

Sunflower: Has a polysemantic meaning:

- First, it embodies the actual flower, the city flower of San Carlos. The city's association with sunflowers is most prominent during its annual Pintaflores Festival. The name Pintaflores is a fusion of two words: "pinta" (paint) and "flores" (flowers). It is celebrated every November to honor the city's patron saint, St. Charles Borromeo. The festival features street dances, where participants paint their bodies with vibrant floral patterns to mimic tattoos and wear elaborate costumes adorned with giant flower designs. The event commemorates a local legend about Princess Nabingka, said to be the town’s first namesake, who, after fleeing a war, was cheered up by the sight of residents with floral tattoos.

- The sunflower is a miniature version of the sun on earth, since it always turns its face to the sun, absorbing the sun's warmth and then giving it to people through its seeds. Hence, it is a symbol of sunlight, warmth, prosperity, and the warm, friendly, hospitable, and welcoming disposition of the locals.

- It symbolizes the solar power plant (SaCaSol I), the nation's first utility-scale solar power plant, inaugurated in 2014. Together with the development of the San Carlos BioPower biomass facility by 2016, it heralds San Carlos as an environmental conservation forerunner, the “Renewable Energy Hub of Asia.”

- The golden petals form a circle around an implied central disc, an allegory for the city’s leaders and citizens gathering like at a roundtable to solve the most important economic and political problems and create peace and well-being in the city.

2 Sugarcane Stalks: Represent the backbone of San Carlos’s economy as part of the sugar industry within Negros Occidental. Each stands for the two names the city has gone by: its old name, Nabingkalan (from Princess Nabingka), and its Spanish-given name, San Carlos (after Saint Charles Borromeo).

The sunflower and sugarcane are shifted to the fly, standing for the city's location within northeastern Negros Occidental.

Current flag: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_San_Carlos,_Negros_Occidental.svg

[u/CaelReader]

This is nice, I like flags that show specific regional plants on them like the sugarcane stalks here.