See also fardo de tabaco
In Bolivia, ? – 20ᵗʰ century, in the town of Huanuni in the department of Oruro, a unit of mass used for firewood, about 25.30 kilograms.
[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 35. (Page numbering is not continuous.)
In parts of India influenced by Portugal, 16ᵗʰ century, a unit of mass, about 209.84 kilograms.
K[uzhippalli] S[karia] Mathew.
Portuguese Trade with India in the sixteenth century.
New Delhi: Manohar, 1983.
Page 237, citing Cartas de Afonso de Albuquerque, volume 2, page 306.
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