In Spain, ? – 19ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of distance, about 1.671810 meter (about 1.83 yards).
A unit of vertical distance, the average height of adult men. In the diaries of Spanish explorers the term is used in expressing the drop descending to the ford of a river.¹
1. E. P. Arneson.
The Early Art of Terrestrial Measurement and its Practice in Texas.
The Texas Engineer, Centennial Edition.
In the Spanish province of Álava, ? – 19ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of land area, = 49 square pie, about 3.8 square meters.
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.
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