Centavo
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The centavo (Spanish and Portuguese 'one hundredth') is a fractional monetary unit that represents one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world. The term comes from Latin centum, ('one hundred'), with the added suffix -avo ('portion').
Circulating
Places that currently use the centavo include:
- Argentine peso
- Bolivian boliviano
- Brazilian real
- Cape Verdean escudo
- Chilean peso (until 1984)
- Colombian peso
- Cuban peso
- Dominican peso
- East Timor centavo coins
- Ecuadorian centavo coins
- Guatemalan quetzal
- Honduran lempira
- Mexican peso
- Mozambican metical
- Nicaraguan córdoba
- Philippine peso (In English usage; séntimo or céntimo is used in Tagalog and Spanish respectively.)
Obsolete
Former forms of the centavo that are no longer in use include:
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- Brazilian cruzeiro (from 1942 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1993)
- Brazilian cruzado (from 1986 to 1989)
- Brazilian cruzado novo (from 1989 to 1990)
- Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. As céntimo for other periods.)
- Ecuadorian sucre (New centavo coins continued to circulate after the sucre was replaced by U.S. dollar in 2000.)
- Salvadoran colón
- Guinea Bissau peso
- Mozambican escudo
- Portuguese escudo (Before the euro was introduced)
- Portuguese Guinean escudo
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- Puerto Rican peso
- São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
- Venezuelan venezolano
- Venezuelan peso
