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Colón is also the name of Costa Rica’s currency. For this see Costa Rican colón.The colón was the currency of El Salvador between 1892 and 2001 until it was substituted by the U.S. Dollar. It was subdivided into 100 centavos and its ISO 4217 code was SVC. The plural is colones in Spanish and was named after Christopher Columbus known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish.
