In Spain, a unit of length, 1.39 meters (about 1.52 yards).
In Mexico, before the 19th century, the paso de Salomon, a unit of length, = 1/3000 legua = 1/1000 milla = 5 tercias = 5/3 vara, about 1.396 67 meters.
Galván Riviera, 1844. Excerpt in Spanish with English translation.
Antiguamente se usó una medida que se llamaba paso de Salomon, y constaba de cinco tercias de la vara comun de medir, como ya hemos dicho poco ha; de manera que la legua legal, esto es, la legua de 5000 varas tenia 3000 de estos pasos, que tambien se le daban á cada lado de un sitio de ganado mayor.
Formerly a measure called the paso de Salomon was used. It consisted of five tercias of the common vara, of which we have already said a little; so that the legal legua, that is, the legua of 5000 varas, contained 3000 of these pasos, and that was also each side of a sitio de ganado mayor.
Mariano Galván Riviera.
Ordenanzas de Tierras y Aguas, ó sea: Formulario Geométrico-Judicial
... 2nd Ed., corrected and enlarged.
Mexico [City]: Leandro J. Valdes, 1844.
Page 71.
In Bolivia, ? – 20th century, in the town of Sacaca in the department of Potosi, a unit of length, = 1 meter.
[Bolivia] Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Colonizacion. Dirección
General de Economia Rural.
Resumen General de Medidas típicas de la República de Bolivia.
Corrected and revised by the Departamento de Muestreos y Padrones.
[La Paz]: Departamento de Muestreos y Padrones, 1956.
Page 33. (Page numbering is not continuous.)
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