Seal of Baruta Municipality, Miranda
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Chapter II
Article 4, of the cecree of the symbols of the Municipality
Number 70-06/94, Date: June 16, 1994
The seal of the Baruta Municipality will take in its field or bottom, the color blue in three quarters, two superior and one inferior. The superior quarter of the right will contain the image of the Simón Bolívar University, once property of the Sartenejas coffee plantation, accompanied in the same quarter by a greater image of a book opened with the following legend: “I recommend the application of the study, the good moral, so that someday can be useful to the mother country.” (Simón Bolivar).
In the superior quarter of the left it will appear a rising sun between mountains representing the birth of the new Municipality and the geographic texture of itself. Between and the straight left quarter in the superior central part, it will contain a crown of leaves of coffee plant, with a white tape in horizontal form and a fold that will contain in its right end the date of February 20, 1582, date of foundation of the Baruta town, in its left will contain the date of January 4, 1990, that means the birth of the new Municipality.
The third quarter will occupy all the inferior part of the seal and in it will appear the facade of the church “Our Lady of the Rosary of Baruta” and the configuration maintained in the historical zone of Baruta. The delineation of the Shield, the separation of the three quarters and the hoop of the coffee plant crown will be of a golden color. Upon the Shield it will appear a yellow arc with black letters, that will contain: “Municipio Baruta” (Baruta Municipality). This arc is reduced of equal way to the vain one or the fore door of the church of “Our Lady of the Rosary of Baruta”.
