Cavan (unit)

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The cavan was a measure of weight and volume on several Philippine islands and in Manila .

Mass unit

The so-called grain measure was used for grains and legumes and also for rice .

Volume unit

The Cavan was a volume measure for dry goods (grain measure) in the Philippines. In the provinces of Albay , Ambos Camarines , Antique , Basilan , Bataan , Batangas , Benguet , Bohol , Cagayan , Cavite , Cebu , Cotabato , Dapitan , Davao , Ilocos Norte , Ilocos Sur , Iloilo , Isabela , Jolo , La Union , Lepanto- Bontoc , Leyte , Manila , Marinduque , Mindoro , Misamis , Negros Occidental , Negros Oriental , Nueva Ecija , Nueva Vizcaya , Pampanga , Pangasinan , Paragua , Paragua Sur, Rizal , Samar , Tarlac , Tayabas (today Quezon ), Zambales and Zamboanga were the values this page. There were deviations in other provinces and parts of the island.

  • 1 Cavan = from about 2¼ bushels
  • 8 chupas = 1 ganta
  • 25 Ganta = 1 Cavan = 75 liters

literature

  • Friedrich Alexander Bran: Ethnographic Archive. Volume 27, 28, Verlag Bran'sche Buchhandlung, Jena 1825, p. 79.
  • Edward Wight Washburn : International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology. Volume 1, National Academies, New York 1926, p. 10.
  • Joseph Prentiss Sanger, Henry Gannett, Victor Hugo Olmsted: Census of the Philippine Islands. Volume 4, Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1905, p. 451.
  • Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 2, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 244.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig concise dictionary of trading, accounting and goods knowledge together with a European trading address book: containing the companies and businesses of the most important trading houses in all of Europe. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1819, p. 461.