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The quetzal was introduced in 1925 during the term of President José María Orellana, whose image appears on the obverse of the one-quetzal bill. It replaced the Guatemalan peso at the rate of 60 pesos = 1 quetzal. [1] Until 1987, the quetzal was pegged to and domestically equal to the United States dollar.
List of all American sovereign state currencies Present currency Country or dependency (administrating country) Currency sign Fractional unit Ref(s) Aruban florin Aruba (Netherlands)
Guatemalan quetzal: Banco de Guatemala Guyana: Guyanese dollar: Bank of Guyana Honduras: Honduran lempira: Banco Central de Honduras Mexico: Mexican peso: Banco de México: float Nicaragua: Nicaraguan córdoba: Banco Central de Nicaragua Panama: United States dollar: Banco Nacional de Panamá: float Paraguay: Paraguayan guaraní: Banco Central ...
Guatemalan quetzal: GTQ: Bank of Guatemala: float Honduras: Honduran lempira: HNL: Central Bank of Honduras: crawling peg to USD Nicaragua: Nicaraguan córdoba: NIO: Central Bank of Nicaragua: crawling peg to USD Costa Rica: Costa Rican colón: CRC: Central Bank of Costa Rica: float Panama: US dollar / Panamanian balboa: USD / PAB: Federal ...
The bolívar [boˈliβaɾ] is the official currency of Venezuela.Named after the hero of South American independence Simón Bolívar, it was introduced by President Guzman Blanco via the monetary reform of 1879, before which the venezolano was circulating.
The peso is the currency of Chile.The current peso has circulated since 1975, with a previous version circulating between 1817 and 1960.Its symbol is defined as a letter S with either one or two vertical bars superimposed prefixing the amount, [1] $ or ; the single-bar symbol, available in most modern text systems, is almost always used.
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The quetzal plays a central role in Mesoamerican mythology and is associated with the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl. The word quetzal was originally used for just the resplendent quetzal , the long-tailed quetzal of Guatemala , (more specifically the area of Northern Guatemala known as the Petén) which is the national bird and the name of the ...