Cuartillo

The cuartillo was a Spanish-Portuguese measure of volume and was used for grain , oil and wine .

• Oil measure : 1 Cuartillo = ¼ Arroba
• Wine measure : 1 Cuartillo = 1/32 Arroba
• Grain measure: 1 Cuartillo = 1/48 Fanega

The dimensional chain was

• 1 Fanega = 12 Celemines = 48 Cuartillos = 192 Racionca = 2719.25 Parisian cubic inches = 53.94 liters

Length measure

Length dimension

• Mallorca : 1 cuartillo = 4.89 centimeters
• Menorca : 1 Cuartillo = 5.01 centimeters

Field measure

• Spain : 1 Cuartillo = 12 Astadales Cuadrados = 1.34 hectares
• Cuba : 1 cuartillo = 1.38 ares

literature

• Pierer 's Universal Lexicon, Volume 4. Altenburg 1858, p. 563
• Brockhaus ' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, fifth edition, volume 1. Leipzig 1911, p. 377.
• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 4. Leipzig 1906, p. 362.
• For silver: The universal calculator for business transactions: Contains the conversion of coins, weights, etc. Dimensions of all countries in the world. Volume 1, Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1870, p. 80.
• Jakob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 244.