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Cash and cash equivalents (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Cash and cash equivalents [Abstract] |
Cash and cash equivalents | The following table shows the detail of Cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2017 and 2016:
| Balance as of December 31, |
| 2017 |  | 2016 |
Cash at bank and on hand |  |  | 669,387 |  |  |  | 594,811 |
Total |  |  | 669,387 |  |  |  | 594,811 |
The following breakdown shows the main currencies in which cash and cash equivalent balances are denominated:
|  | Balance as of December 31, |
Currency |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
U.S. dollar |  |  | 319,400 |  |  |  | 343,954 |
Euro |  |  | 288,625 |  |  |  | 196,382 |
Algerian Dinar |  |  | 13,628 |  |  |  | 10,736 |
South African Rand |  |  | 40,999 |  |  |  | 39,689 |
Others |  |  | 6,735 |  |  |  | 4,050 |
Total |  |  | 669,387 |  |  |  | 594,811 |

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