[1] Heraldically, the official description is as follows: on a field of green, a lanced deer of gold, with a moving sun of the same metal, emerging from the left angle of the chief.

At the base: a golden henequen plant, a terrace of stones or slabs of the same metal.

A gold border with two Mayan arches and two Spanish colonial belfries, placed at the head and at the tip, dexter and sinister, respectively.

[citation needed] Francisco de Montejo (the Nephew), granted the shield and the title of city to Mérida in 1539.

[citation needed] The symbol is used by all successive regimes in Yucatán, in different forms.