10.000 colones banknote
Our ¢10.000 bill. The Central Bank of Costa Rica offers new banknotes that incorporate security features identifiable simply by touching, looking at, and tilting the bill.
10.000 colones banknotes
Security features:
You may check the new banknotes with this simple procedure:
Touch - See - Turn around.
The following video of the new series of banknotes may help you better understand this system and distinguish its security features.
Banknote care
Features:
- Denomination: 10.000
- Circulating Banknotes Series: B.
- Size (in mm): 146 long * 67 width
- Material: Polymer
Biodiversity:
The tropical rainforest is one of the world’s most diverse and exuberant ecosystems. In Costa Rica it used to cover the largest share of the territory, as it may be found in lowlands -up to 700 MASL, and in heavily rainy places like the Central and Southern Pacific Zones, the Northern Zone, and the Caribbean. Due to extensive deforestation towards the end of the past century, rainforests are today highly fragmented, and their largest remainders are protected as national parks and biological reserves.
This is a complex and dense ecosystem, with trees as high as 130-180 feet. Trees usually have an umbrella-like shape with wide crowns and long trunks, quite often with high, smooth, and slender buttress roots.
This forest is more diverse in terms of plants and animals per unit than any other type of forest. More animal species may be found in one single tree of a tropical rainforest than in an entire forest in a higher altitude. Various forms of animal and plant life live in a great variety of specialized environments located in different forest strata.
Source: INBioparque
Notable citizen portrayed:
This man of a profound, innovative thinking was born on the 25th of September 1906. He studied in the United States, and settled in his farm "La Lucha" upon returning to Costa Rica, where he started growing pita and coffee. Yet fate had a different life ahead for is country life-lover turned into an entrepreneur. He decided to raise his voice as he disagreed with the path the country was taking. In his view, democracy was being tarnished, and civil freedoms were no longer being upheld. In 1942 he gave a speech on the radio explaining his dissatisfaction with the Government -a speech he could not finish. He was taken prisoner and subsequently deported to Mexico. And that was where it all started.
José Figueres rose in arms in 1948, when Congress annulled the elections whose legitimate winner was Otilio Ulate Blanco. His friend Francisco Orlich opened up a second battle front in the country’s northern region. Costa Rica was now in civil war. The government’s forces deposed arms after a little more than four months, Figueres went into San José, acclaimed as a hero.
Laying the foundations for modern Costa Rica, the Founding Board of the Second Republic was established, and was presided over by Figueres. The board’s decrees strengthened democracy, and it had highly significant social achievements. And in a magnificent example to the world, the Army was dissolved by decree. On the 7th of November 1949, a new Political Constitution entered into force -and continues to be in force.
The next day, the Board handed over power to Otilio Ulate. Figueres Ferrer founded the National Liberation Party on 12th of October 1951, a party which took him to the Presidency twice (1953-1958, 1970-1974). His administrations account for many accomplishments, the following being among them:
- Costa Rica’s Electricity Institute (ICE) was created (ICE)
- The Banking System was nationalized
- The National Institute of Housing and Town Planning was created
- The Costa Rican Board of Tourism was created
- The Mixed Institute of Social Assistance was created
- The General Directorate of Social Adapting was created
- Costa Rica’s Technological Institute was created
- The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports was created
- The Atlantic Railroad was nationalized
- The National Symphonic Orchestra was created
- The National University was created
- The National Comission of Indigenous Matters was created
- A Family Code was passed
- Costa Rica’s Oil Refinery (RECOPE) was nationalized
- The Social Security System attained a universal coverage
- All hospitals were passed to be under the administration of the Costa Rican Social Security System (CCSS).
The Costa Rica of today has José Figueres indelible mark. His fights and commitments make him the most significant public figure and ruler in the country’s history. Thus he was declared Costa Rican Character of the 20th Century. The leader of the Second Republic died on 8th of June 1990, and was declared a Distinguished Citizen on 12th of November of that year
Source: Osvaldo Valerín Ramírez, Historian.
Banknote brochures showing security features
Download the official banknote brochures containing more information on new banknotes.
10.000 colones banknote, serie C
Brochure for the new 10.000 colones bill. More secure. More durable. Recyclable material. Check both sides of the banknote in three easy steps.