Authors: Néstor Louis Bacallao

               Mercedes Medina

               Alicia González

He took the original way of the shield of the Town Council of Jíquimas of Bemba used during cologne.

The present-day symbol has 11cm of height and 8cm in width.

On the top of the shield it finds the image of an one belonging to the wineglasses brought of Italy at the beginning of the XXth century and that it is a part of the installation where the Town Council to 1959 became established. Some of them at present survive in the border of the roof of the same installation converted in school of primary education that takes Paquito González about name.

The shield body splits into 3 plazas. Her the superior shows the image of a bell that the midway that called the slaves for his transfer with to the ingenuities to work in the coffee plantations and sugar represents.

The second exhibits a segment of the façade of the house where he was born and Domingo Mujica Carratalá lived.

The third plaza represents the African that enjoys the dance in his scarce sabbatical moments in some parties and solemnities.

The lateral ones belonging to the shield border details of bars made by craftsmen of the trade union and famous in the local foundries. The shield base express an important detail under the name of Jovellanos and the year 1870, date in which the change of name of Bemba became officially declared by Jovellanos.

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