Show how brazil adopted its flag of green and yellow tile the story of the brazilian flag is rich in tradition in its des design n homage is paid to the historical heritage of the nation to portugal the mother country to the darin daring portuguese navigators of the fifteenth F and sixteenth centuries one of whom discovered brazil in the year 1500 to the proclamation of independence in 1822 and to the founders of 0 the republic which was established 1 in the fla flag also symbolizes the richness of brazil and its brilliant future observes a writer in the washington post in 1191 1491 1 two years after the first v voyage 0 yale of columbus lort portugal and spain signed at tordesillas a spanish city a treaty in which the limits were set for the operations of each of tile the two nations in the new world A portuguese S standard which appears in one of of the maps drawn at that time has five blue spheres in ili a field of white these colors are remembered and honored in the brazilian er fla flag e and coat of arms the brazilian national colors are green and yellow the flag consists of a green rectangle twice as long as it Is wide whose center Is occupied by a rhombus or diamond shaped figure fl yellow in color the green represents the vegetable kingdom andice and the yellow the ml mineral wl within thin the dla dia mond shaped figure I 1 ls found a blue sphere with an idealized re represents presenta i cioll of tile the heavens at the capital al of lot brazil when the constellation of the southern cross Is at the meridian besides the five white stars of this constellation there are 16 others the whole representing the 20 states of the brazilian r federal union and the city of rio de janeiro |