In Bolivia, ? – 20ᵗʰ century, various units of mass:
Department | Town | Mass in kilograms |
Commodity |
---|---|---|---|
Cochabamba | Aiquile | 57.50 | maize |
46.00 | flour | ||
104.00 | muku (salivated flour used to make a type of chicha) | ||
Capinota | 100.28 | potatoes, ocas | |
Mizque | 59.80 | grain | |
Tarata | 100.28 | potatoes | |
Potosi | Arampampa | 100.20 | potatoes |
Colquechaca | 78.20 | potatoes | |
Sacaca | 100.00 | potatoes | |
Uyuni | 49.68 | potatoes | |
Oruro | Challapata | 52.90 | potatoes |
48.30 | maize | ||
64.40 | chuño | ||
Huanuni | 96.60 | potatoes, naturally-dehydrated potatoes (papalizas) |
[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 23, 31 and 35. (Page numbering is not continuous.)
In Argentina, various units of mass:
The old pesada of Entre Rios, for dry hides, = 40 libras; for salted hides, = 75 libras.
The pesada of Jujuy province= 20 libras. It was also called an arroba.
In Buenos Aires, the pesada for small hides, = 18 libras.
Juan Alvarez.
Temas de Historia Economica Argentina.
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