fanegada

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The fanegada was originally a seed measure of land, the amount of land that could be sown with a fanega of wheat. It was made legal throughout the kingdom of Spain in 1801, at approximately 6425 square meters.

Three smaller fanegadas were also used in Spain.

One, also called an aranzada or arançada, was used for vinyards and fields of oats and barley, = 400 square estadeles. In some cases these fanegadas were measured in estadals of 11 pie instead of 12, in which case they would be approximately 3750 square meters.

The second fanegada had an area of 500 square estadales. When the estadel was taken as 11 pie instead of 12, such fanegadas would be approximately 4690 square meters.

In Valencia there was a much smaller fanegada, approximately 692 square meters, divided as follows:

				cahizada
			fanegada	6
	square braza		33¹⁄₃	200
square vara		4	133¹⁄₃	800
square palmo	18	64	2133¹⁄₃	12,800
0.288 sq. m	5.2 sq. m	20.76 sq. m	692 sq. m	4152 sq. m

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La fanegada de tierra se entiende en algunas partes de Castilla, y principalmente en Toledo, de 500. estadales de á 11. pies (que es la longitud que tiene el estadal de hierro que conserva en sus Archivos), que hacen 73¹⁄₃ varas en quadro de superficie, ó 48400. pies; de él hacen tambien uso en Cádiz, Granada, Jaen, Ubeda, Baca, Benamarcota, Cómares, Vocercutal y otros Pueblos.

The fanegada of land is understood in some parts of Castille, and mainly in Toledo, to be 500 estadales of 11 pies (that is the length of the iron estadale that they preserve in their Archives), which make 73¹⁄₃ varas square in area, or 48,400 [square] pies; they also make use of it in Cadiz, Granada, Jaen, Ubeda, Baca, Benamarcota, Cómares, Vocercutal and other towns.

Don Vicente Martinez Gomez.
Manual de Comercio en que se halla La Description de las Monedas, Pesas y Medidas que se usan en los Reynos de España…
Madrid: en la Imprenta de Don Benito Cano, 1795.
Page 11.

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In Colombia, 20^th century (UN, 1966), a unit of area, approximately 6,400 square meters (approximately 1.58 acres).

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In Peru, 20^th century (UN, 1966), a unit of area, approximately 6,459.6 square meters (about 1.6 acres).

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In Venezuela , a unit of land area, 6,990 square meters (about 1.73 acres).

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In Bolivia, 20^th century, various units of land area:

Department	Town	Area in square meters
La Paz	Inquisivi, Viacha	3500.00
Cochabamba	Aiquile, Arani, Sacaba, Capinota	28,978.00
	Arque	20,976.00
	Arque	320.00
	Cliza, Cochabamba, Punata, Quillacollo, Tarata, Villa Viscarra	28,976.00
Potosi	Arampampa, Potosi, Tupiza, Uncía, Uyunia	28,976.00
Oruro	Huanuni	256.00
Tarija	Concepción	28,976.00
	Entre Ríos	100
	Pampa Redon	41,784.00
	San Lorenzo, Tarija	29,262.00

[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.

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