# Centavo > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Centavo > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Centavo.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centavo > Source revision: 1338638917 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Fractional monetary unit, 1/100 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Centavo" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Look up ***[centavo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search/centavo)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The **centavo** ([Spanish](/source/Spanish_language) and [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language) 'one hundredth') is a fractional monetary unit that represents one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world.[1] The term comes from [Latin](/source/Latin) *centum* (lit. 'one hundred'), with the added suffix *-avo* ('portion'). Coins of various denominations of centavos have been made from [copper](/source/Copper), [stainless steel](/source/Stainless_steel), [aluminum-bronze](/source/Aluminum-bronze), and [silver](/source/Silver).[2] ## Circulating Places that currently use the centavo include: - [Argentine peso](/source/Argentine_peso) - [Bolivian boliviano](/source/Bolivian_boliviano) - [Brazilian real](/source/Brazilian_real) - [Cape Verdean escudo](/source/Cape_Verdean_escudo) - [Colombian peso](/source/Colombian_peso) - [Cuban peso](/source/Cuban_peso) - [Dominican peso](/source/Dominican_peso) - [East Timorese centavo coins](/source/East_Timorese_centavo_coins) - [Ecuadorian centavo coins](/source/Ecuadorian_centavo_coins) - [Guatemalan quetzal](/source/Guatemalan_quetzal) - [Honduran lempira](/source/Honduran_lempira) - [Macanese avos](/source/Macanese_pataca#Coins) - [Mexican peso](/source/Mexican_peso) - [Mozambican metical](/source/Mozambican_metical) - [Nicaraguan córdoba](/source/Nicaraguan_c%C3%B3rdoba) - [Philippine peso](/source/Philippine_peso) (*In English usage; [*sentimo* or *céntimo*](/source/C%C3%A9ntimo) is used in [Tagalog](/source/Tagalog_language) and [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language) respectively.*) - 50 Philippine centavos (1964) of the *English series*. - 10 Philippine centavos (1945), from the Commonwealth period. - 1 Brazilian centavo (2003), no longer produced. - 1 sentimo coin (2002), from the BSP series ## Obsolete Former forms of the centavo that are no longer in use include: This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) - [Brazilian cruzeiro](/source/Brazilian_cruzeiro_(disambiguation)) (from 1942 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1993) - [Brazilian cruzado](/source/Brazilian_cruzado) (from 1986 to 1989) - [Brazilian cruzado novo](/source/Brazilian_cruzado_novo) (from 1989 to 1990) - [Costa Rican colón](/source/Costa_Rican_col%C3%B3n) (Between 1917 and 1920 only. As [céntimo](/source/C%C3%A9ntimo) for other periods.) - [Ecuadorian sucre](/source/Ecuadorian_sucre) (New [centavo coins](/source/Ecuadorian_centavo_coins) continued to circulate after the sucre was replaced by [U.S. dollar](/source/United_States_dollar) in 2000.) - [Salvadoran colón](/source/Salvadoran_col%C3%B3n) - [Guinea Bissau peso](/source/Guinea_Bissau_peso) - [Mozambican escudo](/source/Mozambican_escudo) - [Portuguese escudo](/source/Portuguese_escudo) (before the [euro](/source/Euro) was introduced) - [Portuguese Guinean escudo](/source/Portuguese_Guinean_escudo) - [Portuguese Indian escudo](/source/Portuguese_Indian_escudo) - [Puerto Rican peso](/source/Puerto_Rican_peso) - [São Tomé and Príncipe escudo](/source/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe_escudo) - [Venezuelan venezolano](/source/Venezuelan_venezolano) - [Venezuelan peso](/source/Venezuelan_peso) - [Chilean Cent](/source/Chilean_Cent) (from 1975 to 1983, as a subdivision of the [Chilean peso](/source/Chilean_peso); out of circulation due to inflation[3]) ## See also - [Money portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Money) - [Numismatics portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Numismatics) - [Cent (currency)](/source/Cent_(currency)) - [Coin](/source/Coin) - [Céntimo](/source/C%C3%A9ntimo) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-dict_1-0)** Law, Jonathan, ed. (March 2014). [*A Dictionary of Finance and Banking*](https://books.google.com/books?id=9ho2BQAAQBAJ). OUP Oxford. p. 77. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780199664931](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199664931). Retrieved 7 April 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-akinbard_2-0)** Akin, Marjorie H.; Akin, Kevin; Bard, James C. (5 May 2016). [*Numismatic Archaeology of North America*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3MseDAAAQBAJ). Taylor & Francis. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781315521329](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781315521329). Retrieved 7 April 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-chile_3-0)** ["Chilean Peso"](https://www.exchangerate.com/currency-information/the_currency_exchange_rate_used_for_chile_is_the_chilean_peso.html). *eXchangeRate.com*. Retrieved 7 April 2023. v t e Cent derivatives Current Cent Centavo Céntimo Centime Santim Centesimo Sente Sene Seniti Obsolete Qindarka Santīms Sen Sent Stotinka Authority control databases NARA Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Centavo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centavo) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centavo?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.