143:... it was Captain Diego de Urbina who on his own initiative created the coat of arms, for which he framed in the same coat of arms the one of his native city and the one of his lineage, in order to perpetuate the memory of his memorable feat (the one of to have reconstructed the city in 1541 and achieved its definitive consolidation), being without a doubt this the origin of the arms that the city of Santiago de Guayaquil adopted. I make this affirmation, after a meditated study about the arms of the city of Orduña, those of the family of the conqueror and the similarity that these show with those of our city.
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In the silver field, a castle of its color (old stone), and to its sinister a rampant crowned lion, of a red color, holding a flagpole also of its color, with a flag of gules (red) loaded with a silver cross, all placed on water waves of blue and silver. Bordure of gules (red) loaded with a chain of
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