It is currently believed that the source of these discrepancies is that the authors saw a flag that had faded, with the light blue changing to greenish and the red being dimmed.

After the fall of the League, southern Misiones was occupied by Francisco Ramírez, Governor of Entre Ríos.

[4] In 1816, a tricolor with an identical arrangement was raised in Montevideo by the military governor Fernando Otorgués, appointed by José Artigas.

[6] The Republic of Serbia removed the Yugoslav-era red star and adopted a simple version of its tricolour following a referendum in 1992.

During the Yugoslav wars, similar flags were also adopted by the Serb-dominated Serbian Krajina and the Republika Srpska, which still exists as a federal entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and still uses a simple tricolour in 1:2 proportions.