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Centavo is a Spanish and Portuguese word, derived from the Latin centum, meaning "one hundred", and the suffix -avo, meaning "portion" or "fraction". Centavo means, strictly, "one-hundredth".
It is a fractional monetary unit, used to represent one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world, including:
Circulating
- Argentine peso
- Bolivian boliviano
- Brazilian real
- Cape Verdean escudo
- Chilean peso
- Colombian 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, although sentimo (céntimo) is used in Filipino.)
Obsolete
- Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. As céntimo for other periods.)
- Ecuadorian sucre (New centavo coins continued to circulates after 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
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