In Haiti, 19ᵗʰ – 21st centuries, a unit of land area, approximately 1.29 hectares (approximately 3.19 acres)¹.
In colonial times it is said to have been the area of a square 100 pas on a side.² The source states that in Saint-Domingue (what would become Haiti) the pas was 3½ pieds, while in other French colonies, such as Guadaloupe or Cayenne, the pas was only 3 pieds. This is somewhat strange, as in France, according to Doursther, the pas was 2½ pieds (the geometric pas was 5 pieds).
A square 350 pied on a side would have an area of 12,926.32 square meters, which fits the 20ᵗʰ century value pretty well; a square 300 pied on a side would have an area of 9496.90 square meters.
1. United Nations, 1966.
2. Médéric-Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry.
Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la
partie Française de l'isle Saint-Domingue.
1798.
New edition entirely revised and compared with the manuscript by Blanche Maurel and Étienne Taillemite.
Paris: Societe de l'histoire des Colonies Françaises et Librairie Larose, 1958.
The information is from Maurel and Taillemite, not Moreau de Saint-Méry. Page 14.
In France, a premetric unit of land area.
Location | Synonyms, Equivalents | Side of square, meters |
Area of square, sq. meters |
---|---|---|---|
Agen | latte carrée = ¹⁄₄₃₂ carterée |
4.10786 | 16.874553 |
Angoulême and Cognac. Gattey adds the communes of Garat, Roulet, Manale, Hiersac, Vars, Jauldes, Ventouse, Montemboeuf, Montbrou, Saint-Claud, Jarnac, Salles, Segouzac, Aubeterre, Lavalette, Deviac, Lapéruse; Rouillac, Ruffes, Aigre, Villefagnan, Nanteuil. | latte carrée = ¹⁄₂₀₀ journal |
2 toise or 12 pieds de Guyenne, 4.15740 |
17.283975 |
Bordeaux | latte carrée = ¹⁄₅₁₂ journal |
7 pieds, 2.49718 |
6.235908 |
Marennes and Rochefort | perche carrée = ¹⁄₁₀₀ journal |
18 pieds de Paris, 5.84711 |
34.188683 |
In Paris, France, a old unit used to describe dressed stone, = 1/10 chariot, about 0.102852 cubic meter.
Doursther, 1840.
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