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| SYMBOLS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF MOCA |
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Shield of Mocha
Was designed by the painter mocano, Augusto Hernández by request of the Society Pro Conmemoración of the Bicentenary of Mocha, Inc., adopted officially on February 29, 1972 by the Municipal Assembly. It has form oblongada, divided in silver field and blue sky joined by a lozenge purple, the color of flower of Mocha. The lozenge is loaded with religious symbolisms and in his low part two leaves and leafy branches of the tree of Mocha and the golden one that means the village.
Inside the lozenge one finds a golden monogram of the Virgin Mary overcome by a Christian wreath of the same metal. The shield is crowned by a wreath silvered in the shape of castle of three crenellated towers. |
| On the wreath the word is esculpida in gold Mocha and in the hollows of the frontal doors of the castle there are two padlocks gilded with eyes in the shape of Latin cross that the lofty boss of Mocha represents, San Juan Nepomuceno who was tortured for guarding bravely and jealous the secret of the confession. The silver and white color means purity and modesty, the blue is the sky mocano that symbolizes peace and freedom. In lozenge maiden means. The wreath is of the Puerto Rican Monserrate. The green leaves ) and the branches are representative of the tree of Mocha (Indiras Inermis) where the branches mean fertility and immortality. The Wreath in the shape of castle means autonomy, union and confraternity. |
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Flag of Mocha
Augusto Hernández Was designed and prepared by the painter mocano and approved by the Society Pro Conmemoración of the Bicentenary of Mocha. It was adopted officially on February 19, 1972 as the Municipal Assembly.
The flag has rectangular form that consists of a triangular equilateral field color purple on this another golden triangle, indicating both towards the horizon of the blue and green field of the flag. In the field purple that means the color of flower of Mocha, appears eleven silver stars of five tops turning about major color gilded that means Mocha and his neighborhoods.
The purple represents humility and wisdom, the blue color beside representing the sky, symbolizes peace and freedom. The green color represents land mocana symbol of fertility and immortality. |
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Tree of Mocha The tree of Mocha belongs to the great botanical family of the leguminous ones like it is the Samoa, Carob-tree, Tamarind and Flamboyán between others. Inside this family there is a small group of plants that are known scientific by the name of Andiras or Andireas of which the tree of Mocha forms a part. This one is easy to recognize to simple sight if there are known his elementary characteristics which we detail later:
Leaf: This one has form impariplanada. This wants to say that it is composed of small leaves pareadas supergiven by an odd small leaf. The small leaves appear in couples of five, six and seven. Besides his natural beauty, the flower of Mocha is very visited by the bees. This indicates that the tree is very valuable for the bee-keepers due to his properties melíferas. |
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Flower: These can appreciate a full florescence in Puerto Rico during April to August. The same one grows in branched out clusters from 6 to 12 inches of length. The individual flower grows almost stuck to the rod of the cluster what scarcely has weight. The wreath is of color purple pink. His form is very similar to that of the pea. The pistil of the same one measures ½ inch of length including the ovary that has a bit flattened form and is of pale green color. The yarns are of white color and are grouped in joint of 10 yarns. The flower is supported by a chalice in the shape of bell.
Trunk: This one reaches normally the height from 20 to 50 feet. The diameter of them same changes from 6 to 12 inches. In the forest rectum grows. In the level field his glass expands well branched out, dense and rounded. The bark of the adult trunk measures normally ½ to of inches of thickness. Of her there obtains a yellow resin pardosa that has such medicinal properties as laxative, narcotically and vermifuge. The substantial medicinal one that is extracted from this resin knows himself with the name of Swallow.
The wood of Mocha in his heart is of light brown color. Besides his beauty, it is hard, heavy and strong. According to the cabinet-makers who her(it) have worked it is good to mold due to the fact that it surrenders wonderfully to the brushed one, turned and fixing. His great resistance to the cracks converts her into an ideal piece for the carpentry and cabinet-making.
Fruit or Seed: The seed belongs to the group of the monosfermos. It has oval form. His color is green to dark green. It is little camosa externally and lasts within. The normal size of the same one is from 1 to ½ inch of length and a bit less width. The texture of the bark of the tree is soft enough. They enter 20 seeds for pound. This fruit as the bark of the tree has medicinal or toxic properties according to the case.
The tree of Mocha is a part of our history of people, is an attractive showy tree of shade, enviable of florescence, wonderful and other extraordinary qualities that we do not find commonly in other trees.
Mundillo
World According to the mundillistas, Cipriana Vargas vda. Of Cabán, The Teacher Catalina Flores, Freed Gerena Vda. Of Hernández, Maria Lassalle Vda. Of Vargas, they remember that the first teachers artesanas of world in Mocha at the end of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century was of Spanish nationality. They were known by Dona Adriana, It donates Tite, Juanita Donates, Donates Pepa Sanchez and Donates Brígida Roman.
Dona Tite had his workshop opposite to the public square of Mocha to the side South, Dona Adriana was located in the street Salsipuedes known today as street Dona Maggie. Other one of the teachers it was Dona Manuela Sanchez, mother of Ms Nelly Vera. Dona Manuela was administering his own workshop and business in the building located in what is today the building of the Dr. Santiago Montes.
In that epoch the first teachers of world were receiving the young women for world taught, which indicates that the first mundillistas mocanas concerned to the high class. Every workshop of the teachers was using as collection of the laces that his disciples were producing, which were sold to the merchants who were coming to the peoples of Aguadilla, Wash and the Cardinal City between others.
When the change of the sovereignty happened in Puerto Rico, after the investment of the United States, the crafts of the World in Mocha were an industry flourishing and well bought property to the tradition mocana that then spread to all the social and economic levels of the people .
Nowadays Mocha and his neighborhoods possess a great quantity of mundillistas and shops that they dedicate to the sale of suit, baby's clothes and laces of world.
Today the artesanas meet monthly in groups to share idea and to learn new details. In these moments we know as teachers of world Ms Yolanda Romero and Ms América Nieves who dedicate his time to promoting the crafts and not leaving this tradition. In addition, the craftsmen have organized and incorporated as the Craftsmen's Workshop Mocanos In.
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| Twelve neighborhoods, twelve stars In our constellation That we want proudly And we will defend with tenacity |
His paths, his fields His mochas of green and flower They Give beauty to our soil With his radiant brilliance. |
From the north of the Saw Up to the south of the Culebrina Laboremos the mocanos Up to conquering the top. |
The new generations are nourished by glory Of The legacy that there have left The heroes of our history. |
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