2022-03-04 Fri

The Bank of the Republic of Colombia introduced a 50,000-peso note in August 2018. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo.

Various shades of violet and light and dark blue dominate the note, which features the image of Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Márquez is widely thought to be one of the most influential writers in the Spanish language.

In addition to his bust on the face, a second vignette shows him standing amid a flock of hovering butterflies. The back shows two standing natives; “Ciudad Perdida” (Lost City) in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an archaeological site that is considered the heart of the Tayrona culture; a nautilus shell; and the seal of the bank.

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