Cuba

Flag of Cuba

Five stripes, a red triangle, and one white star. Explore Cuba’s national flag through its nineteenth-century origins, official symbolism, exact construction, historical companion, and display rules.

2:1 width:heightAdopted April 11, 1869

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The national flag has five equal alternating blue-and-white stripes, a red equilateral triangle at the hoist, and one white star. Download the flag SVG.

Explore the construction sheet, the lone star, and the historical sequence.

Cuba’s flag flies at El Morro castle in Havana, photographed by Angelo Lucia in August 2006.Angelo Lucia (Lucha), CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; no crop. Image credit and license.

Flag of Cuba

Country	CubaRepublic of Cuba; Spanish: República de Cuba.
Name	Flag of the Lone StarBandera de la estrella solitaria.
First raised in Cuba	May 19, 1850Cárdenas, during the expedition led by Narciso López.
Adopted	April 11, 1869Assembly of Guáimaro; the date recorded in Law 128, Article 5.
Republic inaugurated	May 20, 1902The existing Cuban flag became the flag of the new Republic.
Proportions	2 : 1 — width:heightFive equal horizontal stripes; a red equilateral triangle at the hoist.
Emblem	One white five-pointed starCentered in the triangle; its circumcircle diameter equals one-third of the flag height.
National Day	January 1Anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution in 1959.

Cuba’s flag alternates three blue stripes with two white stripes. A red equilateral triangle at the hoist contains a white five-pointed star. Law 128 defines the meanings summarized below; the star represents the sovereign republic and Cuban unity.

Blue — The colonial administrative divisions and the aspirations of Cuban patriots.

White — Purity of ideals and the virtue of Cubans.

Red — Blood shed in the struggle; the equilateral triangle expresses liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Lone star — A free, independent, sovereign republic and the unity of Cubans. Explore the star.

An overview of the Cuba flag

The flag of Cuba has five equal horizontal stripes in the order blue, white, blue, white, blue. A red equilateral triangle fills the hoist, the edge attached to the pole. A single white five-pointed star stands upright at the triangle’s center. The flag is twice as wide as it is high.

Its Spanish name, bandera de la estrella solitaria, means “flag of the lone star.” That name identifies the national flag in both Cuba’s Constitution and its national-symbols law. The star is the flag’s central emblem; Cuba’s separate coat of arms is not placed on the national flag.

Several dates answer different questions about its age. The design emerged among Cuban exiles in New York in 1849. It was first raised on Cuban soil at Cárdenas on May 19, 1850. The Assembly of Guáimaro adopted it on April 11, 1869, and the Republic inaugurated on May 20, 1902 used the same basic design. Later legislation standardized and regulated it.

This distinction matters when a reference calls the flag an “1850 flag,” an “1869 flag,” or a “1902 flag.” Those dates refer to its public appearance in Cuba, revolutionary adoption, and use by the new Republic. They are not three entirely different modern national flags.

The lone star and the red triangle

The white five-pointed star is the national flag’s emblem. Its red setting is part of the hoist triangle.

Article 6 of Law 128/2019 gives the star a defined meaning: the free, independent, sovereign republic and the unity of Cubans. It is not a map of an island, a count of provinces, or an ornament borrowed from Cuba’s coat of arms.

The surrounding triangle is equilateral: all three sides are equal. One side forms the flag’s entire hoist edge, while the opposite vertex points toward the fly. Article 6 associates the triangle with liberty, equality, and fraternity. Its red color recalls blood shed in the struggle.

In normal horizontal display, one point of the star faces upward. The star is centered on the triangle itself, not halfway across the whole flag and not halfway along the triangle’s depth. Because the triangle narrows toward the fly, its geometric center lies closer to the hoist than its right-hand tip.

The law specifies a star inside an imaginary circle whose diameter is one-third of the flag height. The dashed construction lines are explanatory guides.

Colors: the legal names and digital reproduction

The law specifies azul turquí, white, and red. Azul turquí describes a deep blue; it should not be translated as turquoise. Three stripes are blue and two are white. Red belongs to the triangle, while the star is white. The top and bottom stripes are both blue.

Law 128, Article 7 and Annex II, supplies the color names. The Hex and RGB values above identify this article’s digital artwork, not a statutory color standard.
Element	Legal color description	This page’s sRGB rendering
Blue stripes	Azul turquí — deep blue	#002A8F · RGB 0, 42, 143
White stripes and star	White	#FFFFFF · RGB 255, 255, 255
Hoist triangle	Red	#CF142B · RGB 207, 20, 43

The legal text and construction annex examined here do not give Pantone, CMYK, or numerical colorimetric coordinates. A screen value should therefore not be promoted into an official textile specification. A photographed flag also changes appearance with sunlight, shade, fabric, exposure, and the display on which the picture is viewed.

There is a genuine historical reason to distinguish light blue from deep blue. The January 6, 1906 law authorized the executive to replace azul celeste with azul turquí in the flag and arms. The associated presidential decree is dated April 24, 1906. The surviving printed plate is documentary evidence; its aged ink is not a modern color-calibration target.

Symbolism and meaning

Cuba’s flag has more than a familiar popular interpretation: Article 6 of the 2019 national-symbols law expressly describes its meanings. The blue and white stripes, red triangle, and white star each have a stated role. These are the official meanings used in the factbox and the rows below.

Blue — The colonial administrative divisions and the aspirations of Cuban patriots.

White — Purity of ideals and the virtue of Cubans.

Red — Blood shed in the struggle; the equilateral triangle expresses liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Lone star — A free, independent, sovereign republic and the unity of Cubans. Explore the star.

The three blue stripes recall the colonial administrative division of the island at the time the flag was designed. They do not enumerate Cuba’s present-day provinces. Article 6 also connects blue with the aspirations of the patriots. White is linked to the ideals and virtue of Cubans, while the red triangle combines the memory of sacrifice with the ideals represented by its three equal sides.

The star’s official meaning joins independence with unity. The adjective “lone” describes a single star, but it does not mean that Cuba rejects relations with other countries. Nor does the national flag’s red triangle make the flag a design created in 1959: its form belongs to the nineteenth-century history described below.

Historical interpretations and present legal meanings should be read at their own dates. López’s expedition belonged to a political setting that included plans for U.S. annexation. The later independence movement adopted the flag, and modern Cuban law defines its star in terms of a sovereign republic. A symbol can acquire a broader national meaning than the ambitions of one early sponsor.

Construction and exact proportions

Let H be the flag’s height. Its fly length is 2H, each stripe has height H/5, and the triangle has three sides of length H. The star’s imaginary circumcircle has diameter H/3. These relationships scale together, whether the flag is drawn on a screen or made as a large textile.

The 2:1 rectangle, equal stripes, equilateral triangle, and star diameter follow Article 7 and Annex II. The coordinate formulas are mathematical consequences of those rules.

Calculated example from the legal geometry. Rounded decimal measurements are explanatory; they do not replace the exact formulas.
Feature	Formula using flag height H	Example when H = 600 mm
Overall width	2H	1,200 mm
Each stripe’s height	H/5	120 mm
Each triangle side	H	600 mm
Triangle depth toward the fly	√3H/2	About 519.615 mm
Star center from the hoist	√3H/6	About 173.205 mm
Star center from the top	H/2	300 mm
Star circumcircle diameter	H/3	200 mm

The triangle’s center is its centroid, where its medians meet. In an equilateral triangle this is also the center of the inscribed and circumscribed circles. Its horizontal coordinate is one-third of the triangle’s depth. Placing the star at half the depth would shift it visibly toward the tip.

A practical drawing order is to make the 2H-by-H rectangle, divide it into five equal horizontal stripes, overlay the equilateral red triangle, and then place the white star at the triangle’s center. Keep the star’s upper point vertical. The official construction sheet contains guides, but those guide lines are not part of the finished flag.

Read the flag from the attached hoist toward the free fly. The emblem stays in the triangle while the alternating stripes continue to the fly.

Adoption, constitutional recognition, and later law

Article 2 of the 2019 Constitution identifies the lone-star flag, the Bayamo anthem, and the royal-palm coat of arms as national symbols. It leaves their identifying characteristics, use, and conservation to legislation. The detailed instrument examined here is Law 128, approved July 13, 2019.

The law was published in Gaceta Oficial No. 71 on September 19, 2019. Its final provisions say that it takes effect 180 days after publication. Approval, publication, and entry into force are separate events; none is the historical adoption of the flag. Article 5 explicitly records adoption at Guáimaro on April 11, 1869.

Political milestones and legal instruments serve different purposes. Later regulation does not mean the flag was newly invented at each date.
Instrument or event	What it establishes
Guáimaro, April 11, 1869	Adoption of the lone-star flag, as recorded in Article 5 of Law 128.
Republic inaugurated, May 20, 1902	Use of the existing national flag by the new Republic.
Law and decree of 1906	Republican regulation of the flag, arms, and seal; authorization of deep blue and a detailed flag description.
Law 42 of December 27, 1983; Decree 143 of April 13, 1988	Earlier national-symbols law and regulation, expressly repealed by the 2019 law.
Law 128/2019 and Annex II	Meaning, design, dimensions, materials, use, honors, conservation, and associated construction drawings.

The 2019 law applies in Cuban territory, on Cuban vessels and aircraft, and at Cuban missions abroad enjoying privileges and immunities. Its text addresses both institutions and individuals. The sections below identify the relevant provisions rather than importing another country’s flag code.

The flag’s historical development

The Cuban flag predates both the twentieth-century Republic and the Revolution of 1959. Its story moves from an exile-led expedition to a symbol adopted by an independence movement, then to republican law and later national-symbols legislation. The timeline distinguishes changes in political authority from changes in flag design.

1849

The design takes shape in New York

The lone-star design emerged in the exile circle around Narciso López. Miguel Teurbe Tolón drew it, and Emilia Teurbe Tolón made an early sewn example. The flag’s creation therefore involved a political initiative, graphic work, and textile work rather than one interchangeable act.

1850

The flag is raised at Cárdenas

On May 19, 1850, López’s expedition raised the flag at Cárdenas. This is its first raising on Cuban soil. The expedition failed to secure control of the island; displaying the banner did not establish an independent Cuban state.

1868

Céspedes raises a different flag

The Céspedes flag in its 2019 legal form: a red canton with a white star, white upper fly, and blue lower half. Image provenance.

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes began the uprising at La Demajagua on October 10, 1868, using another red-white-blue flag. Its design has a red canton with a white star and a blue lower half. The illustration shows the present legal form, not the original surviving textile.

1869

Guáimaro adopts the lone-star flag

The Assembly of Guáimaro chose the lone-star flag on April 11, 1869. The Céspedes flag retained historical honor. Law 128 records both the adoption date and the continuing special status of the Céspedes banner.

1902

The Republic is inaugurated

The inauguration on May 20, 1902 included the lowering of the U.S. flag and raising of the Cuban flag, documented in the Library of Congress catalog. The event gave the older independence emblem its role as the flag of the new Republic.

1906

Deep blue and republican specifications

The January 6 law authorized the change from light blue to deep blue. The April 24 presidential decree described a rectangle twice as long as high, five equal stripes, a red equilateral triangle, and an upright white star. The accompanying official plate documents the period’s rendering.

1959

Political revolution, continuing national flag

January 1, 1959 marks the triumph of the Revolution commemorated by Cuba’s National Day. It is not the origin of the lone-star design. The flag’s earlier history and the continuity of its basic form are visible in the 1906 plate and modern legal description.

1983–1988

A symbols law and its regulation

Law 42 of December 27, 1983 and Decree 143 of April 13, 1988 formed the earlier regulatory framework. Their existence and subsequent repeal are stated in the 2019 law. These are legal milestones, not evidence of a newly designed national flag.

2019

A consolidated national-symbols law

Law 128 combines detailed rules for the national symbols with their official meanings and construction annexes. It expressly allows respectful individual display at residences, workplaces, public events, and on vehicles, and sets conditions for representations on clothing and other objects.

The early political setting deserves care. The U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian describes López as seeking annexation to the United States and connects that project with preserving slavery in Cuba. His expeditions were privately organized armed ventures, commonly called filibustering. Treating their aims as identical to the later sovereign republic would flatten an important part of the history.

The Guáimaro adoption and the meanings now prescribed in Cuban law show a different stage in the flag’s national life. The article’s historical account distinguishes that later role from López’s own program; it does not treat either episode as a reason to erase the other.

Who designed the flag of Cuba?

Miguel Teurbe Tolón is credited with drawing the Cuban flag in New York in 1849 from ideas associated with Narciso López. Emilia Teurbe Tolón sewed an early example. These roles distinguish the design’s graphic creation, its political sponsorship, and the work of making it in cloth.

Accounts preserved by Cuban historians place the design in a circle of exiles that included the writer Cirilo Villaverde. A drawing can establish an arrangement of stripes and symbols, while a sewn flag turns that arrangement into an object that can be carried and raised. Crediting Emilia’s work preserves that distinction.

Authorship is also different from adoption. The Assembly of Guáimaro’s later choice made the lone-star design the flag of the independence movement. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century legal descriptions then governed reproduction and use. No new individual designer is named here for the current statutory specifications.

The Céspedes flag: historical symbol and naval jack

The flag of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, often called the flag of La Demajagua or Yara, is distinct from the national lone-star flag. Law 128 recognizes its historical importance because it was raised at Céspedes’s sugar mill when he began the October 10, 1868 uprising against Spanish colonial rule.

The present legal Céspedes flag uses a golden-ratio red canton and a lower blue half. It is a separate flag, not a national flag with rearranged stripes.

Its modern legal rectangle is also 2:1 width:height. The lower half is deep blue. The upper half contains a red rectangle next to the hoist and white toward the fly. Annex II makes the red rectangle’s length the height of that upper half multiplied by the golden ratio, approximately 1.618. A centered white star fits a circle of diameter H/3.

The law requires this flag beside the national flag in the National Assembly’s meeting room, and permanently alongside it in Bayamo and La Demajagua. It also prescribes a replica beside the national flag at Céspedes’s mausoleum. At the bows of warships, the Céspedes flag is flown under the rules of the armed-forces ministry; this is its naval-jack role.

A jack is not the same thing as the national ensign at the stern. Article 20 says Cuban civilian vessels and warships use the national flag at the stern when approaching or arriving at a foreign port. The two flags therefore have distinct, documented functions.

Specialist historical accounts credit Candelaria Acosta, known as Cambula, with sewing the 1868 Céspedes flag. The current legal construction drawing should not be treated as a measurement record for that original handmade object. Historical textiles can preserve details that differ from a later standardized drawing.

Cuba and Puerto Rico: similar pattern, different colors

Cuba and Puerto Rico both use five horizontal stripes, a hoist triangle, and a white five-pointed star. The fastest distinction is the placement of red and blue: Cuba has blue stripes and a red triangle; Puerto Rico has red stripes and a blue triangle. Both have two white stripes.

The comparison uses cropped hoist details so it does not imply that both flags have the same overall proportions. Puerto Rico’s 1952 flag law specifies the reversed color arrangement.

Compare the arrangement of colors, not a photograph’s brightness or the shade displayed by a particular screen.
Identification clue	Cuba	Puerto Rico
Top, middle, and bottom stripes	Blue	Red
Hoist triangle	Red	Blue
Other two stripes	White	White
Star	One white five-pointed star	One white five-pointed star

The Céspedes flag is another possible source of confusion. It uses the same three colors and a white star, but has a rectangular canton and a blue lower half instead of five alternating stripes. A Cuban coat of arms shown separately is also not an additional national-flag variant: the legal flag’s emblem is the lone star.

Materials, manufacture, and prescribed sizes

Article 9 states a preference for polyamide fabric, while also permitting silk, silk satin, and another suitable fabric or material that allows proper construction, durability, and use. The law does not make a single artisanal process, weave, or commercial maker mandatory. Article 8 requires the prescribed elements to be respected when the flag is sewn, painted, engraved, or drawn.

For manufacturing, the critical visual checks follow directly from the design: five equal stripe heights, the correct blue-white order, equal triangle sides, an upright centered star, and the 2:1 finished proportion. Seams and mounting details should preserve those relationships. These are practical checks derived from the legal design, not a separate certification scheme.

Selected contextual sizes from Article 10. Heights are calculated from Article 7. Other sizes are allowed under Article 10(7); private display has no specific size under Article 33.
Use identified in Article 10	Specified fly length	Corresponding height at 2:1
Exterior wall-mounted staff at specified institutional buildings	3 m	1.5 m
Indoor institutional staff	3 m or 1.8 m	1.5 m or 0.9 m
Specified hanging, wall, educational, and decorative contexts	3 m, 1.8 m, or 1.2 m	1.5 m, 0.9 m, or 0.6 m
Military units: gala / everyday / storm	6 m / 3 m / 1.8 m	3 m / 1.5 m / 0.9 m
Official parades, acts, or ceremonies	1.5 m or 1.9 m	0.75 m or 0.95 m
Vehicles of the head of state and diplomatic mission heads	0.4 m	0.2 m
Official negotiation or visitor tables	0.3 m	0.15 m
Civilian vessels: large / medium / smaller	6 m / 3 m / 1.8 m or 1.2 m	3 m / 1.5 m / 0.9 m or 0.6 m

The parade and ceremony provision includes 6 cm gold fringe, a 3 m staff including its fittings, and a 2.10 m braided cord in deep blue, white, and red with two tassels. Gold fringe is a ceremonial accessory, not a fourth color added to the national design.

Article 10(6) relates warship flag length to vessel length. These are separate maritime provisions, not a universal table of shop sizes.
Warship category	Gala flag length per meter of vessel length	Everyday flag length per meter
Large displacement	4 cm	2 cm
Medium displacement	4.5 cm	2.5 cm
Small displacement	5.5 cm	3.5 cm

Article 11 requires the relevant staff length, measured from the halyard cleat to the pulley, to be at least three times the flag’s fly length. The purpose stated in the provision is to prevent the flag from touching the ground. This should not be confused with the separate half-mast distance explained below.

National Day and flag anniversaries

Cuba’s National Day is January 1, commemorating the triumph of the Revolution in 1959. It is listed that way in official diplomatic information. This date belongs to Cuba’s political calendar; it is not the date on which the lone-star flag was designed or first raised.

An anniversary and a legally designated annual Flag Day are not interchangeable. May 19 is identified here by its documented historical event.
Date	What it commemorates or identifies
January 1	National Day: the triumph of the Revolution in 1959.
May 19	Anniversary of the first raising of the lone-star flag on Cuban soil in 1850.
April 11	Anniversary of the Guáimaro adoption recorded by Law 128.
May 20, 1902	Inauguration of the Republic and its flag-raising ceremonies.
October 10, 1868	Céspedes’s uprising at La Demajagua and the historic flag associated with it.

Flag use is not confined to anniversaries. The law covers working-day display at specified institutions, daily school ceremonies during the teaching period, public ceremonies, national monuments, and private use. An individual’s right to display the flag respectfully at home or work is stated separately from rules for official buildings.

Display, respect, and everyday use

Under Article 33, individuals may use the flag on vehicles, carry it at public events, and display it at residences or workplaces, observing the law’s requirements of respect and care. That article sets no specific size. A rule limiting vehicle flags solely to high officials would therefore misstate the Cuban provision.

Respectful display

Give the flag a visible position of honor; do not dip it to another flag, emblem, or person.
Raise it vigorously and lower it slowly and solemnly, keeping it clear of the ground, water, and objects below.
With other nations’ flags, use separate staffs of equal height and raise and lower them together.
At a podium, place it at the presiding party’s right, which is the observer’s left.

Uses prohibited by the law

Do not write, paint, stamp, or sign on the flag itself.
Do not fly a torn, deteriorated, or faded flag.
Do not use it as a table covering, podium covering, or a covering that prevents it from unfolding freely; authorized funeral use is a stated exception.
Do not cross it with another national flag. The separate crossed-staff provision concerns a different kind of ensign.

When the other flags do not represent nations, the Cuban flag occupies the upper position on a shared staff. On adjacent staffs it is raised first and lowered last, at greater height and in the position of honor. In a group with an odd number of flags, Article 18 identifies the center; with an even number, it identifies the center position on the observer’s left. These rules should not be merged with the equal-height rule for other national flags.

Clothing requires a further distinction. Article 80 allows respectful representations of national symbols on clothing and other objects, but specifies placement and excludes items such as underwear, swimwear, towels, handkerchiefs, aprons, and footwear. It does not authorize cutting up a flag, signing it, or using it as an unrestricted covering.

Commercial use is also qualified. Article 44 prohibits flag use in advertising and commercial communication products, while Article 81 permits national symbols in advertising messages whose purpose is to promote patriotic values and respect, without changing their elements or degrading their image. The latter is a specific exception, not a blanket commercial license. Article 82 extends the applicable rules to virtual spaces.

The law sets different display schedules for different settings. Operational vessels normally fly the flag from sunrise to sunset; Cuban diplomatic premises abroad display it permanently. Schools raise it daily during the teaching period. During dangerous weather, Article 36 calls for lowering or not raising the flag, with stated institutional exceptions that use a storm flag. One universal “daytime only” rule would miss those distinctions.

At the raising, lowering, or ceremonial passing of the flag, Article 47 requires people to face it at attention, stand if seated, stop if walking, and uncover their heads. It specifies separate military and uniformed-pioneer salutes. These are the Cuban law’s provisions; they should not be replaced by a salute borrowed from another country.

Horizontal, vertical, and street display

For horizontal ceremonial display, Article 22 places the red triangle at the observer’s left with the star’s upper point facing up. For vertical display, the triangle’s base must be at the top and that original upper star point faces the observer’s right. This is achieved by rotating the whole flag 90 degrees clockwise.

The complete flag rotates together. Do not rotate the star independently to make it point upward in the vertical version.

The five stripes become vertical lines when the whole flag is rotated. The red triangle remains intact at the top; it is not moved to a corner. The white star is asymmetric under a quarter-turn, so checking the direction of its original upper point is more reliable than judging the stripes alone.

Article 23 also addresses public spaces and marches. A suspended vertical flag has the triangle’s base at the top. When the flag is carried horizontally over a street during a parade or march, the base of the triangle faces the direction of travel, and the flag is held securely above the ground.

Folding, storage, and retirement

Article 25 describes a triangular fold, preferably performed by two people. They take the flag lengthwise at opposite ends, fold it in half across its height, and fold it in half again in the same direction with the visible star face downward. Triangular folding then starts from the striped fly end and continues toward the hoist.

The important distinction is between the flag’s normal rectangular shape and its shape when folded for storage or presentation. The final folded triangle is not a different flag design. The folding process follows lowering and collecting the flag while keeping it clear of the ground and water.

Article 45 calls for secure indoor storage when the flag is not in use. Article 46 addresses a flag that is torn, deteriorated, or has lost its original colors: if it will not be preserved as a historical object, it is respectfully incinerated. The historical-object exception matters for museums and archives; deterioration alone does not justify destroying an important surviving artifact.

The 1906 plate illustrates why documentary records should be retained with their dates. It records an official historical rendering. Its paper, printing, and digitization affect the colors seen today, so it belongs in the history of the flag rather than in a modern color-matching chart.

Half-mast, mourning, and funeral use

Article 26 requires half-masting on days decreed as national or official mourning. Cuba’s definition is unusually precise: the half-mast position lies one flag-height below the top of the staff. It does not automatically mean the midpoint of the pole. First raise the flag fully, then lower it slowly to the prescribed position.

The distance H is the flag’s height. Before finally lowering a half-masted flag, raise it briefly to the top again. The staff length in this explanatory drawing is not a construction specification.

Article 26 supplies the flag-handling procedure. The particular decree establishes the mourning occasion and period.
Situation	Rule in Law 128
Decreed national or official mourning	Fly at half-mast under Article 26.
Initial movement	Raise vigorously to the top, then lower slowly to the mourning position.
Defined mourning position	A distance below the top equal to the flag’s height.
Final lowering	Raise briefly to the top again, then lower solemnly.
Additional mourning indication	Two black streamers or ribbons may be attached below the spearhead.

Funeral draping is separately regulated by Articles 39 and 40. Eligible cases include people with recognized patriotic, revolutionary, leadership, scientific, educational, cultural, sporting, or public-service merits; people who die while carrying out a state mission; and armed-institution members under the applicable ministry rules. The first two categories require prior authorization from the municipal assembly president or the head of the diplomatic mission, as appropriate.

Article 40 distinguishes viewing from transport. The law does not instruct families to bury the national flag with the coffin or urn.
Funeral stage	Required position or action
Coffin on public view	Place the triangle over the deceased’s chest, with the star’s upper point toward the deceased’s left shoulder.
Transport of the coffin	Place the triangle over the head, keep the same star orientation, and secure the ends against wind.
Display or transport of an urn	Place the flag over the urn.
Before lowering into the grave	Remove and fold the flag in the prescribed manner.

The law also gives a specific continuing role to the national flag over José Martí’s funerary urn at his mausoleum in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, Santiago de Cuba. That named provision should not be generalized into an unrestricted right to use the flag as a permanent covering for any object.

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Cuba’s national flag: five equal blue-and-white stripes, a red equilateral triangle, and one white five-pointed star.