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Cash and cash equivalents (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Cash and cash equivalents [Abstract] |
Cash and cash equivalents | The following table shows the detail of Cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2018 and 2017:
|  | Balance as of December 31, |
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Cash at bank and on hand |  |  | 631,542 |  |  |  | 669,387 |
Total |  |  | 631,542 |  |  |  | 669,387 |
The following breakdown shows the main currencies in which cash and cash equivalent balances are denominated:
|  | Balance as of December 31, |
Currency |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
U.S. dollar |  |  | 328,716 |  |  |  | 319,400 |
Euro |  |  | 228,036 |  |  |  | 288,625 |
Algerian Dinar |  |  | 11,602 |  |  |  | 13,628 |
South African Rand |  |  | 55,257 |  |  |  | 40,999 |
Others |  |  | 7,931 |  |  |  | 6,735 |
Total |  |  | 631,542 |  |  |  | 669,387 |

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