Coat of Arms of the Republic (1821)

The stamp shows the coat of arms of the Gran Colombia.

Gran Colombia is a name used today for the state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central America .. Read more »from 1819 to 1831. It included the territories of present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, northern Peru, western Guyana and northwest Brazil.
Although the Gran Colombia was created through the Fundamental Law of the Republic of Colombia, issued during the Congress of Angostura (1819), the State as a result of the union of said territories did not see the light until the Congress of Cúcuta (1821), where the Constitución constitucional was drafted, with which its creation was implemented and regulated, as well as political life and of the new country. The political-administrative system adopted by the republic was unitary centralism.

Country:	Colombia
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	Creation of the Republic and the Constitution, 80th Anniv.
Nominal:	130 $
Year:	1989
Size:	40 x 50 mm
Perforation:	12
Mintage:	300,000