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 (), with the added suffix -avo ('portion').

Coins of various denominations of centavos have been made from copper, stainless steel, aluminum-bronze, and silver.

Circulating Places that currently use the centavo include: Argentine peso Bolivian boliviano Brazilian real Cape Verdean escudo Colombian peso Cuban peso Dominican peso East Timorese centavo coins Ecuadorian centavo coins Guatemalan quetzal Honduran lempira Macanese avos Mexican peso Mozambican metical Nicaraguan córdoba Philippine peso (In English usage; sentimo or céntimo is used in Tagalog and Spanish respectively.)

Obsolete Former forms of the centavo that are no longer in use include:

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 Chilean Cent (from 1975 to 1983, as a subdivision of the Chilean peso; out of circulation due to inflation)

See also

Cent (currency) Coin Céntimo

References