It was donated to the inhabitants of the city of San Salvador de Jujuy by Manuel Belgrano, one of the Libertadores of the state, during the War of Independence.

The banner was kept for many years in different places in the city: the Cabildo, the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Saviour, the Legislature, until on 20 April 1927, a room was inaugurated specifically for its conservation and veneration.

On 27 March 1967 Julio Rodolfo Alsogaray, the Commander-in-chief of the Argentine Army decided to appoint the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Regiment "General Belgrano" as the sole custodian of the original copy of the flag.

[3] At the beginning of the 1991 term, a private petition was submitted to the Legislature of Jujuy, along with a bill to recognize the "flag of the Civil Freedom of Argentina" as the official emblem of the province.

The proposal raised some doubts, so the body asked the National Academy of History of Argentina to issue a ruling on the matter, which was positively confirmed by the opinion of Armando Raúl Bazán.