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==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=June 15, 2021}}</ref> ===Flag=== The wide cross represents Christianity brought to the [[Americas|New World]] by [[Christopher Columbus]],<ref name="prfrogui.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.prfrogui.com/home/mayaguez.htm |title=Mayagüez-municipio de Puerto Rico-datos y fotos |publisher=Prfrogui.com |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309092207/http://www.prfrogui.com/home/mayaguez.htm |archive-date=March 9, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> who signed his documents with the phrase and the motto ''Christ Ferens'', which means: "He who has Christ." The blue and white waves between the third and fourth quarters recall the coat of arms granted to Columbus by kings [[Catholic Monarchs of Spain|Ferdinand and Isabella]]. The waves represent the ocean (and particularly the [[Mona Passage]]) through which he sailed to bring the gospel to these new lands. The blue and white waves symbolize the [[Yagüez River]] and evokes the nickname ''City of Pure Waters''. The red and white flames on the flag symbolize the traditional [[bonfire]]s of [[Virgin of Candelaria|Day of Our Lady of Candelaria]] ("Día de La Candelaria"), ignited in honor of the city's [[patron saint]] (a tradition started for [[Canary Islanders|Spanish settlers]] from the [[Canary Islands]]).<ref name="prfrogui.com"/> The flag was officially adopted with the signing of City Ordinance 38, signed December 3, 1996.<ref name="prfrogui.com"/> ===Coat of arms=== According to the Puerto Rican historian Federico Cedó Alzamora, the original version of the [[coat of arms]] of Mayagüez was given to the city December 19, 1894, by the Queen Regent of Spain [[Maria Christina of Austria]].<ref name="HIST">"Historia de Mayagüez 1760–1960"; by Subcomite de la Historia de Mayaüez (Author); Page: 92; Publisher: Talleres Graficos Interamericanos (1960); Language: Spanish</ref> The upper half of the coat of arms shows the columbine coat of arms recalls and commemorates the discovery of the Island of Borinquén (Puerto Rico) by Columbus in his second trip to the New World in 1493. The lower half of the coat of arms shows a stylized version of Columbus's landing on Puerto Rico. The explorer's crew disembarked at the western coast of the island,<ref name="HIST"/> where several rivers spill their waters in the Mona Passage, among them the Yagüez, from which the name of Mayagüez is derived. The present version was reinterpreted by heraldist Roberto Biascochea Lota. ===Anthem=== The city's anthem was written by pianist and former music teacher [[Luciano Quiñones]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salonhogar.com/est_soc/pr/pueblos/mayaguez/index.htm |title=Mayaguez |publisher=Salonhogar.com |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415085533/http://www.salonhogar.com/est_soc/pr/pueblos/mayaguez/index.htm |archive-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> a long-time resident and now "adopted son" of the city. Until this song's adoption, the [[plena]] "''A Mayagüez''", written by [[César Concepción]], was used by many as an unofficial city song. Quiñones' composition was the winner of a contest sponsored by the city's municipality in 2003.<ref name="Cedó">{{Citation|first=Federico |last=Cedó Alzamora |title=El Himno de Mayagüez |series=Publicación Oficial No. 010 |publisher=Oficina del Historiador de Mayagüez. |url=http://www.mayaguez.pr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=106&lang=es |access-date=July 21, 2010 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810064742/http://www.mayaguez.pr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=106&lang=es |archive-date=August 10, 2011 }}</ref> Mayor José Guillermo Rodríguez and the Municipal Legislature entrusted the Advisory Board of Art and Culture of Mayagüez to hold a contest to select an anthem for the city.<ref name="Cedó"/> The selected composition was a [[danza]] by Mr Luciano Quiñones, who has a bachelor's degree in music, a piano professor the Escuela Libre de Música de Mayagüez, he is a music composer already winning nineteen abarrios in competitions held by the Institute of Puerto Rican culture, and the Circulo de Recreo de San Germán.<ref name="Cedó"/> The lyrics alludes to the emblematic symbols of Mayagüez; its nicknames, to its [[Virgin of Candelaria|Patron Saint]], its taste of [[mango]], to its sunsets in the [[Mayagüez Bay|bay]], to the [[Taíno people|Taíno]], to [[Eugenio María de Hostos]], their role as cultural cradle, the sympathy of the ladies and the dream of its valleys and its mountains.<ref name="Cedó"/> The anthem was presented to the people in a memorable concert held in commemoration of the 239 anniversary of the founding of the city on the night of September 18, 1999, interpreted by tenor, Mayagüez adopted son, Rafael José Díaz, Mayagüezana lyric soprano, Hilda Ramos, accompanied by the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra conducted by its Associate Director, Mayagüezana Roselyn Pabón, in the same place where such Symphony Orchestra offered his first concert forty years earlier: the [[Plaza Colón]].<ref name="Cedó"/> This danza was recognized as the official anthem of Mayagüez through the Municipal Ordinance number 58, series 1999–2000, adopted on December 20, 1999, by the City Council, which was signed by the Mayor, Honorable José Guillermo Rodríguez on December 24, 1999.<ref name="Cedó"/> MIDI and recorded versions of the anthem can be listened to here.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ladanza.com/mayahimn.htm |title=Himno a Mayagüez |publisher=Ladanza.com |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013155709/http://ladanza.com/mayahimn.htm |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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