The colón is the currency of two Central American nations: Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ...

• Costa Rica (ISO 4217 three-letter currency code: CRC) see Costa Rican colón
• El Salvador (ISO 4217: SVC) – since 2001 used in parallel with the United States dollar; see dollarization, El Salvador colón.

The Costa Rican colón is divided into 100 céntimos; the Salvadoran colón is divided into 100 centavos. ISO 4217 is an international standard describing three letter codes to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization or ISO. The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes (which are similar to those used... CRC is an abbreviation for: Christian Reformed Church Class-Responsibility-Collaboration cards, popularized by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, and Ward Cunningham of WikiWikiWeb fame. ... The colón (named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish) is the currency of Costa Rica. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Dollarization occurs when the inhabitants of a country use foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency. ... The colón (named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish) is the currency of El Salvador. ...

The Spanish-language plural form is colones, but most English speakers use the simpler plural colons. This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...

Symbol (₡)

Colones from Costa Rica and El Salvador have the same symbol, in Unicode its code point is U+20A1. the decimal representation is 8353. In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ...