Blue, white and golden yellow refer to the national flag, and blue also symbolizes the waters through which the first immigrants from Friulia arrived.

The white square in the middle of the flag refers to the topography of the city, whose streets are oriented at an angle of 45° to the north.

In the center of the flag is a symbol now called the Resistencia sun.

38 applicants responded to the invitation, and the project proposed by Sacha Mijaila Vanioff under the pseudonym Jorge Quinto was the winner.

The winning design was officially presented on 17 July 2019,[4] but was first raised on 27 January 2020, on the 142nd anniversary of the city.