Editing Bayamón, Puerto Rico (section)

==Symbols==
The {{lang|es|municipio}} has an official flag and coat of arms.<ref>{{cite web | title=Ley Núm. 70 de 2006 -Ley para disponer la oficialidad de la bandera y el escudo de los setenta y ocho (78) municipios. | website=LexJuris de Puerto Rico | url=https://www.lexjuris.com/LEXLEX/Leyes2006/lexl2006070.htm | language=es | access-date=2021-06-15}}</ref>

===Flag===
The current flag of Bayamón features the [[Nordic cross flag|Nordic cross]] found in many [[Northern Europe]]an flags and is colored in blue and yellow over a white field. It was embroidered by Gloria M. León and maintains the design and colors of its coat of arms.

===Coat of arms===
This shield is a symbol and synthesis of the history and the values which distinguish the city of Bayamón. The main colors of the shield are blue and silver, representing the waters of the [[Bayamón River]] and recalling that it was on these banks that the first hydraulic sugarcane refinery of Puerto Rico was established in 1549. The center contains the [[Christian cross|Holy Cross]] (Santa Cruz), patron of the first church of the municipality and the name of the old sugarcane refinery "Santa Cruz", which was the historical origin of the town of Bayamón. The sugarcane flowers ({{lang|es|guajana}}) allude directly to the sugarcane industry that is of social and economic importance to the origin and development of Bayamón.<ref>{{cite web | title=BAYAMON | website=LexJuris (Leyes y Jurisprudencia) de Puerto Rico | date=19 February 2020 | url=http://www.lexjuris.com/pueblos/pueblos_files/BAYAMON.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219001436/http://www.lexjuris.com/pueblos/pueblos_files/BAYAMON.html | archive-date=19 February 2020 | url-status=live | language=es | ref={{sfnref | LexJuris (Leyes y Jurisprudencia) de Puerto Rico | 2020}} | access-date=16 September 2020}}</ref>

The five-tower crown, which is used for cities, was assigned to Bayamón as an exception for its extraordinary urban development, the magnitude of its population and for its religious dignity, which will possibly be raised to become Episcopal seat. The motto "IN HOC SIGNO VINCES" makes reference to Emperor [[Constantine the Great|Constantine]] when in the 4th century had the vision in which the victory was promised to him if it accepted the [[Christian cross|cross of Christianity]] as his banner.