Buey

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The buey was a Mexican measure used to regulate the irrigation of farmland.

All smaller dimensions, which depend on this dimension, and also the Buey itself, are actually area dimensions that represent a passage cross-section for water and only imprecisely reflect the flow rate . The flow rate (volume per unit of time) of water was also calculated as weight per unit of time. These legitimized irrigation laws on this basis were not always free of conflict and gave rise to many lawsuits.

The graduations were

  • 1 buey (water jet) = 48 surcos (furrows) = 1296 square inches (about 1 square Vara )
  • 1 surco = 3 naranjas (roughly oranges) = 27 square inches (6 by 4 ½ pulgades )
  • 1 naranja = 3 limes (lemons) = 9 square inches (6 times 1½ pulgades)
  • 1 Naranja = 8 Reales = 16 Dedos = 432 Pajas (6 times 1 ½ Pulgades)
  • 1 Real = 2 Dedos = 18 Pajas (¾ times 1 ½ Pulgades)
  • 1 lime = 18 pajas (straws) = 1 ⅛ square inches
  • 1 Paja = 1/18 square inch (¼ Pulgada by ¼ Pulgada)

The Paja is supposed to deliver one cuartillo per minute of water. For liquids, the cuartillo was legally set at 0.5041252 liters . (For grain it was 1.891976 liters and the C. yucateco 1.262 liters). The daily value for the Paja was 14½ quintals .

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Buey = 48 Surcos = 144 Naranjas = 1152 Reales = 2304 Dedos = 20736 Pajas (almost 26.2 cubic meters )

literature

  • Johann Wilhelm Müller: Travels in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Volume 3, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1865, p. 377.
  • Emil Karl Heinrich (Freiherr von) Richthofen: The external and internal political conditions of the Republic of Mexico since its independence up to the most recent times. Wilhelm Hertz , Berlin 1859, p. 174.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Eduard Wappäus: Handbook of geography and statistics of the former Spanish Central and South America: together with the European possessions. Verlag der JC Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863–1870, p. 139.