Chupa

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Chupa was a small measure of volume in the Philippines .

  • 1 Chupa = 4 Apatanes = 0.375 liters
  • 8 Chupas = 1 Ganton / Ganta = 3 liters
  • 1 Cavan = 25 Ganton = 75 liters

The dimensional chain with special volume unit when trading rice was:

  • 1 Caban / Kaban / Cavan / Coyang = 25 Gantons = 200 Chupas = 800 Apatanes = 98.28 liters

literature

  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 134 .
  • JP Sanger: Census of the Philipine Island . Volume 4, US Bureau of the Census, Washington 1905, p. 448.
  • Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Terms, formulas and constants from natural sciences, technology and medicine. Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-32283-211-5 , p. 158.