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Flag of La Ercina - Image by Antonio Gutiérrez (VexiLeón website), 17 December 2010
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The municipality of La Ercina (584 inhabitants in 2009; 10,502 ha; municipal website) is located in the northeast of León Province, 60 km of León. The municipality is made of the 14 villages of La Acisa de las Arrimadas, Barrillos de las Arrimadas, El Corral de las Arrimadas, Santa Colomba de las Arrimadas, Laiz de las Arrimadas, Sobrepeña, La Ercina (capital), Oceja, Yugueros, San Pedro de Foncollada, La Serna, Fresnedo y Palacio de Valdellorma, and Valporquero de Rueda.
La Ercina is a coal-mining village (website). From 1937 to 1963, 17 accidents claimed 52 lives; among them, the firedamp explosion that broke out on 10 June 1954 killed 14 miners, known as "the 14 from Ercina".
The five villages of La Acisa de las Arrimadas, Barrillos de las Arrimadas, El Corral de las Arrimadas, Santa Colomba de las Arrimadas and Laiz de las Arrimadas formed the domain of Las Arrimadas, owned by the Bishop of León. For more than 500 years, the five villages have been managing together a mount declared of common interest.
Ivan Sache, 17 December 2010
The flag (photo) and arms of La Ercina are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 18 January 2005 by the Municipal Council, signed on 7 March 2005 by the Mayor, and published on 15 March 2005 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 51, p. 4,641 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag with proportions 2:3, made of a purple panel with a white saltire throughout, of 1/6 in height, charged with 14 purple discs, three in each arm, one in the intersection, and four in the arm of the saltire close to the upper left corner.
Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Argent a mountain vert a miner's lamp of the first, 2. Gules 14 bezants argent placed in four fesses of three and one of two. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
The 14 disks must represent the 14 villages forming the municipality.
Ivan Sache, 17 December 2010