Chinanta

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Chinanta was a unit of mass ( measure of weight ) in various Southeast Asian countries. On the islands of the Philippines it was in effect until 1860, the year of the introduction of metric measures and weights.

  • 1 Chinanta = 10 Cates = 160 Taels = 6.255 kilograms (after 6.3262 kilograms)
  • 10 chinantas = 1 picul = 62,550 kilograms

literature

  • William Edwin Safford: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Volume 9, US Government Printing Office, Washington 1905, p. 139.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JP Sanger: Census of the Philipine Island . Volume 4, US Bureau of the Census, Washington 1905, p. 449.