Uruguay's currency is the peso. The code for the Uruguayan peso is UYU. The peso has been Uruguay's currency since 1967, when it replaced the old Uruguayan escudo at a rate of 1 new peso to 1000 escudos.The current exchange rate for the Uruguayan peso is about $0.035 USD to 1 UYU. This means that 1 USD is worth about 28 URUGUAYAN PESOS (as of March 2017).The Peso is subdivided into 100 centésimos, although coins denominated in centésimos are no longer in circulation as of 2016 due to inflationary pressures on their value over time.