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1000 Pesos Uruguayos Candombe
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesos Uruguayos (1000 UYU) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A pair of hands playing a traditional Candombe drum (tamboril) occupies the central field, depicted in detailed relief with applied color. The UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) logos appear in the field. A curved inscription commemorating the UNESCO recognition runs along the lower portion of the field, while the date '2017' flanked by two five-pointed stars is positioned at the top, superimposed over the event designation. The overall composition emphasizes the drum as the emblematic instrument of the Candombe tradition. |
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Candombe, the Afro-Uruguayan drum tradition brought by enslaved West and Central Africans beginning in the late eighteenth century, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2009 — the same recognition that prompted the Banco Central del Uruguay to begin issuing a series of commemoratives around the practice. The 2017 issue is one of several in that run, each tied to a specific instrument or ceremonial element of the tradition as practiced in Montevideo's conventillos.