Herb Wenezueli

El centro del escudo es un pequeño círculo, dentro del cual aparecen las cifras «19», recordando el 19 de abril de 1810; de todos los puntos de la circunferencia parten numerosísimos rayos de longitudes desiguales, aunque los más largos tienen todos la misma; el conjunto representa un sol, cuyo centro es el número 19. Alrededor de ese centro, a distancias iguales, hay 6 estrellas que se destacan sobre el fondo formado por los rayos.

En la parte superior del conjunto hay una cinta o filacteria en la cual se lee la siguiente divisa latina: LUX UNITA CLARIOR, que podría traducirse así: «La luz concentrada es más brillante».

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• Attributes.—

The Meridenian Coat of Arms presents a compound shape tierced per fess. The Quarter of the Chief enameled in Or (yellow) shows three panoplies: two swords crossed in saltire at dexter; a cannon with a mast with open sails at center and on the sinister an arrow crossed with a rifle rebounded by a Phrygian Cap, all in its colors. The Central Quarter enameled in Azure (blue) presents a snow crested mountain with a lake where a boat is sailing at dexter and a prairie at sinister with a Silver (white) horse running from dexter to sinister but looking to the dexter. The Quarter of the Base enameled in Gules (red) charges two bundles: one of sugar cane at dexter and one of wheat at sinister with a book and a flaming votive lamp in the middle. As external ornaments the blazon shows a condor in attitude of begin the flight crowned by a five-pointed star in Argent (Silver) as crest and as supports a coffee branch at the dexter and a laurel branch at the sinister jointed by means of an Argent pennant charging as mottoes the following inscriptions: "ESTADO MERIDA" ("Merida State") at the center; "9 DE OCTUBRE DE 1558" ("October 9th, 1558") at the dexter and "16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1810" ("September 16th, 1810") at the sinister.

• Semiology.—

On the First Quarter the crossed swords reminds the triumph of the Spaniard founders of the city of Mérida over the so called tyrant Lope de Aguirre; the cannon and the mast with open sails represent the continuous fights against the pirates on Gibraltar harbor whilst the arrow, the rifle and the Phrygian Cap alludes to Battle of Niquitao won by Rivas Dávila and his Meridenian army on 1813. The Second Quarter it's a general semblance of the Meridenian landscape: its snowed crests, its lacustrian depression and its mountain foot looking to the prairies. The horse maintains the characteristic posture of that appear on the Coat of Arms of Venezuela and remember too the Liberty. On the Third Quarter the bundles of sugar cane and wheat reminds the agricultural riches of the State whilst the book and flaming lamp symbolizes the Meridenian intellectual tradition and the creation of its University. The enamels Or, Azure and Gules constitutes a tribute to the Venezolanity. The condor remembers the Andean roots of the region. The star symbolizes the Province of Mérida at the moment of its join to the national emancipation. The coffee branch reaffirm the agricultural tradition of the State and the laurel one reminds the triumph of the efforts of its sons and daughters. The mottoes rebound the regional identity, the date of foundation of the capital of the State and the date of the begin of the Independency Movement of Venezuela.”

• According to the heraldic lexicon it is denominated field the total surface and interior of a shield and barracks each one of the parts in that he/she is this divided. The Shield of the New State Esparta is divided in two barracks: red and blue.

• Emblems are the symbolic representations placed in the barracks of the shield. The Shield of New Esparta shows the attributes following emblematic: in the first barracks a flechera of gold appears on silver waves, and in the second a necklace of pearls.

• Ornaments are certain pieces that put on to accompany the main work. That of New Esparta has coral fields and of algae. A walks, a newt, an oar and connected trident.

• Stamp it is the badge that is placed above the Coat of arms to distinguish the grades of nobility. That of New Esparta has like bell, the cap frigio among rays of gold, and a laurel crown like symbol of their glorious victories in the Great Guerra of the good Emancipación.

Fue decretado por el ejecutivo regional el 9 de septiembre de 1933 de acuerdo a la Ley de Escudo, Sello e Himno del estado Anzoátegui de 1876.

El escudo está dividido en dos cuarteles con los colores rojo y azul.

• El cuartel superior rojo contiene una fortaleza, que representa la Casa Fuerte de Barcelona, sobre la que se alza el ave fénix, símbolo de Venezuela, resurgiendo de las cenizas de la guerra. En ambos lados de la fortaleza, los eslabones de unas cadenas rotas simbolizan la independencia de España y la abolición de la esclavitud.
• El cuartel inferior azul muestra a un toro al trote hacia su derecha. Este animal representa la riqueza agropecuaria del Estado.

Las figuras exteriores del escudo son las siguientes:

• Detrás del escudo, está un sol naciente que muestra un rostro por encima del escudo, simboliza la situación de la entidad en territorio oriental. Los rayos de este sol salen hacia los lados del escudo de forma circular, y los mismos representan los municipios en los que estaba dividido el Estado.
• Detrás del escudo, pero delante del sol, se entrecruzan dos cañones de bronce, a los lados dos ramas de laurel. Estos simbolizan las glorias de los nacidos en el Estado durante la guerra de independencia.
• En la base del escudo, una cinta une los dos cañones. En esta, la inscripción «Tumba de sus tiranos» conmemora la Batalla de Urica, librada en el Estado y en la que murió el realista José Tomás Boves.