2000 — Two Thousand Pesos
The artwork
Front: Débora Arango Pérez (1907–2005), captioned simply "artista", laughing open-mouthed — an unusually informal portrait for a banknote. Behind her, the standing woman in jacket and skirt is drawn from her own painting, with a smaller dancing figure sketched alongside. To the left, the lechoso flower (Cavendishia adenophora) and a bird in red, white and blue. "BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA / COLOMBIA" runs along the base, with DOS MIL PESOS set vertically at the right.
Back: The pink and ochre riverbed of Caño Cristales in the Serranía de la Macarena, its terraces and mesa reduced to engraved line and wash. Across the right half, birds and blossom taken from her painting "El Cardenal", named in quotation marks. Above them, a short statement by Débora Arango Pérez on art and morality, set in small capitals, and the Banco de la República seal with its classical head.
In circulation
Part of the peso family rolled out from 2015, this 2,000-peso note entered circulation in 2016 and remains in daily use as the lowest-value Colombian note in print. The dated imprint on this example, 26 July 2022, marks a later printing rather than a new design.
Details
- CurrencyPeso
- DenominationTwo Thousand Pesos
- IssuerBanco de la República, Colombia
- SeriesDated 26 de julio de 2022; serial CD70740072
- PrinterImprenta de Billetes, Banco de la República
- SecurityWindowed thread repeating "BRC"
- SignatureGerente General and Gerente Ejecutiva
- Dimensions128 × 66 mm