A unit of length in Spain and many Spanish-speaking South American nations, ? – 20ᵗʰ century. In original concept the braza, like the English fathom, is the distance from tip to tip of outstretched arms.
1. United Nations, 1966.
2. Doursther (1840), page 73, whose values are from Kelly and Altès.
A unit of land area in Spain. In most cases it is simply a square braza.
Country | Nomenclature | Area in square meters |
Source |
---|---|---|---|
province of Valencia, Spain 19ᵗʰ century |
braza | 3.462 |
2 |
braza real | 4.165²
4.1554³ |
2, 3 | |
province of Canarias, Spain | braza | 3.2801 | 3 |
province of Castellón, Spain | braza real | 4.1554 | 3 |
Colombia, Panama and the Philippines | braza | 2.79 (3.34 square yards) |
1 |
1. United Nations, 1966.
2. Doursther (1840), page 73.
3. Dirección General del Instituto Geográfico y Estadístico.
Equivalencias entre las Pesas y Medidas Usadas Antiguamente en las Diversas
Provincias de España y las Legales del Sistema Métrico-Decimal.
Publicadas de Real Orden.
Madrid: Imprenta de la Dirección General del Instituto Geográfica y Estadístico,
1886.
The braza de cuidad, in the city of Manila in the Philippines, a unit of length used in surveying land, = 8 piés, 7 pulgadas, and 6 líneas of the standard of Burgos = 3 varas less 1/8 of a vara = about 2.4012 meters. Also called a realenga or realengo. See quiñón.
Para representar las extenciones de las superficies de un terreno ó sementera toman los Manilos por unidad la Braza de Ciudad (Realenga), que es una longitud de 8 piès, 7 pulgadas, y 6 líneas de Burgos.
To represent distances in [measuring] the area of a piece of land or sown field, the people of Manila take as the unit the Braza de Cuidad (Realenga) which is a length of 8 piés, 7 pulgadas, and 6 líneas of Burgos.
Eduardo Sanchez Pita.
El Consultor del Sistema mètrico o Tablas de reducción de las pesas y medidas….
Published by the author, 1868.
as quoted in
S. Martin.
Tablas de las pesas y medidas que se usan en Filipinas.
Manila: Philippine Publishing Co., 1901.
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