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ferrado

1

In Portugal, a unit of land area, about 725 square meters (about 0.179 acre).

A unit of area, = 1 square vara.

2

In Galicia in northwest Spain, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of dry capacity, usually a fourth of a fanega (but in some areas a fifth or a sixth), varying considerably with location.

(In reading the table, bear in mind that the fanega also varied with location.)

Locality	Nomenclature, Equivalents	Value in liters	Source
La Coruña	for wheat, = 12 concas = 0.25 fanega	16.15	1, +
La Coruña	for maize, = 12 concas = 0.25 fanega	20.87	1, +
Lugo*	= 0.25 fanega	13.13	1, +
Orense*	for grain, = 3 celamines = 0.25 fanega	13.88	1, +
Orense*	ferrado colmado, for maize,	18.79	1, +
Pontevedra	for wheat and small fruit = 12 concas = 0.25 fanega	15.58	1, +
Pontevedra	for maize, beans and other legumes = 14 concas = 0.25 fanega	20.86	1, +

*But in some towns in the districts of Betanzos, Lugo and Orense, the ferrado was a fifth of a fanega, and in others a sixth of a fanega.

1. 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.

Page 23, 35, 40, 43.

3

The corresponding units of land area in Spain.

Locality		Area in square meters	Source
Coruña	= 900 square varas	639.5841	1
Coruña	= 625 square varas	444.1556	1
Lugo	= 625 square Castillian varas	436.7107	1
Orense	= 900 square Castillian varas	628.8635	1
Pontevedra	ferrado de sembradura, = 900 square varas	628.8635	1

Page 23, 35, 40, 43.