This background is supported in one side by an Andean condor, the most significant bird of prey from the Andes, and in the other, by a huemul, a mammal endemic to Chile.

Under Decreto Supremo Nº 1534 del Ministerio del Interior de Chile, sobre el uso de los Emblemas Nacionales, Chilean law describes the coat of arms as follows: The Coat of Arms presents a five-pointed silver star in the center of a cut field, turquoise blue the top and red the bottom and its shape is that fixed by the official model approved by War Decree No.

2,271 of September 4, 1920, in accordance with the law, and which, in addition, has a timbre a tricolor plumage of turquoise blue, white and red; for supports a rampant huemulum on its right and a condor on its left in the position that fixes that model, crowned each of these animals with a gold naval crown; and on the base an arcocola crossed by a ribbon with the slogan "For reason or strength", all in accordance with the aforementioned model.

Although the version with supporters is the most accepted representation of the coat, other historians have suggested that the coat of arms was oval-shaped, and had also a reverse depicting a sun rising behind mountain with the mottoes Aurora libertatis chilensis ("The beginning of Chilean liberty") and Umbra et nocti, lux et libertas succedunt ("Shadow and night are succeeded by light and liberty").

The first one, created in June, showed a similar pillar and globe, and the motto Libertad ("Liberty") over them, together with the words Unión y fuerza ("Union and strength") on a black blue field.

To complete the coat of arms, an indigenous man held it with his hands over his head, while sitting on an American cayman with one foot resting on the Horn of Plenty.

The cayman had, in its jaws, the Lion of Castile, whose crown laid fallen on one side and was holding the ripped Spanish flag with its front paws.