Centavo

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 (lit. 'one hundred'), 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 )