In Bolivia, ? – 20ᵗʰ century, some local units of mass:
Department | Town | Mass in kilograms |
Commodity |
---|---|---|---|
Potosi | Arampampa |
17.02 | |
Sacaca | 23 | beans and chuño (the freeze-dried potatoes made by a natural process) |
|
Uyuni | 23 | maize | |
Cochabamba | Capinota
|
27 | peanuts, barley |
24.84 | sweet potatoes | ||
Cochabamba | 16 | grain | |
Cliza |
18.40 | habas | |
16.56 | flour, maize | ||
23 | tunta | ||
Sacaba |
16.56 | barley | |
23 | chuño | ||
18.40 | quinoa | ||
20.24 | potatoes | ||
Tarata | 17.02 | maize | |
Villa Viscarra | 20 | grain |
In Bolivia, ? – 20ᵗʰ century, in the department of Cochabamba, various units of dry capacity, varying by locality. In Arani, 16.56 liters, used for grain. In Arque, 16 liters when used for maize and 20 liters for wheat.
In Bolivia, ? – 20ᵗʰ century, in the department of Potosi, two units of land area. In Uncía, Sacaca and Uyuni, 3,625 square meters. In Arampampa and Potosi, 3,622 square meters.
[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.
Pages 23, 24, 31 and 32. (Page numbering is not continuous.)
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