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Flag of El Ejido - Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 October 2012
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The municipality of El Ejido (82,983 inhabitants in 2013; 22,700 ha; municipal website) is located straight in the centre of the "Plastic Sea" in the west of the Almería Province. The town is located in Campo de Dalías at the foot hills of the Alpujarra Mountains. It arises like an island out of a landscape consisting just of greenhouses (invernadores), where especially tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini are cultivated intensively and harvested four times a year. In the 1950, the number of inhabitants was just 3,000; today El Ejido is the 3rd most populous municipality of the province.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 October 2012
The flag of El Ejido, adopted on 9 September 1996 by the Municipal Council and validated on 20 March 1997 by the Royal Academy of Cordóba, is prescribed by Decree No. 143, adopted on 20 May 1997 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 24 June 1997 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 72, p. 7,742 (text). This was confirmed by a Decree adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, in length (from hoist to fly) one time and a half the height, divided perpendicularily to the hoist into two equal stripes, the upper stripe of colour flag green, the lower stripe white, charged with four wavy stripes of colour sea blue, all proportioned in height and length.
The flag hoisted in front of the Town Hall, of the local police station and of two major hotels, is charged with the coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms of El Ejido is prescribed by Royal Decree No. 2,477, adopted on 13 July 1983 and published on 15 September 1983 in the Spanish official gazette, No. 221, p. 25,340 (text). This was confirmed by a Decree adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The coat of arms, validated by the Royal Academy of History, is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Vert a four-columned temple or, in base waves argent and azure, in chief the writing "MURGI" in letters argent. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The temple recalls an old sanctuary dedicated to god Mars. Murgi was the name of the town in the Roman times (2nd-4th centuries). The waves represent the coast bathed by the Mediterranean Sea.
[Símbolos de las Entidades Locales de Andalucía. Almería (PDF file)]
Klaus-Michael Schneider & Ivan Sache, 13 October 2012