Fanega

The Fanega , also Fanegada or Fanga depending on the region , was used as a volume and grain measure in Brazil , Portugal , Spain and various South American countries with different sizes. The second application was as a measure of area in Spain. The measure can be viewed as a Spanish-Portuguese one. As an old grain volume measure , it is still used in South and Central America with values ​​between 55.4 liters and 4 hectoliters . The most frequently used value is 55.4 liters, in medieval Castile it was 55.5 liters.

Volume measure

Generally it was true

• 15 Fanega = 1 Moyo
• 1 Fanega = 4 Alqueiras = 8 Meyos = 16 Quartos = 32 Selemis = 64 Mequias
• Madeira Island 1 Fanega = 2260 Parisian cubic inches = 44 ¾ liters
• Brazil 1 Fanega = 2790 Parisian cubic inches = 55 9/31 liters
• Azores 1 Fanega = 2416 Parisian cubic inches = 47 8/9 liters
• Portugal 1 Fanega / Fanga = 2724 Parisian cubic inches = 54 liters
• Faro (Algarve) 1 Fanega = 3264 Parisian cubic inches = 64 17/25 liters
• Postage 1 Fanega = 3320 Parisian cubic inches = 65 4/5 liters

In Spain the dimensional chain was different and it applied

• generally 1 Fanega = 12 Almudes = 48 quartillos
  • Bilbao / Province of Biscaya 1 Fanega = 3033 Parisian cubic inches = 60 liters
  • Province of A Coruña / Galicia 1 Fanega = 4 Ferrados = 3204 Parisian cubic inches = 63 ½ liters
  • Ferrol / Galicia 1 Fanega = 3588 Parisian cubic inches = 71 liters
  • Madrid 1 Fanega (Castilian) = 240 1/12 Parisian cubic inches = 4 ¾ liters
  • Málaga 1 Fanega = 3056 Parisian cubic inches = 60 14/25 liters
  • Oviedo / Asturias 1 Fanega = 3841 Parisian cubic inches = 76 1/9 liters
  • Santander / Burgos 1 Fanega = 2776 Parisian cubic inches = 55 liters

Area measure

A fanega also denotes the area that is required to produce a fanega grain . For Castile , for example, that was 6,459.6 square meters . In Spain the measure was very different as an area and field measure.

• 1 large fanega = 4900 square - Varas = 3523.31 square meters
• 1 small fanega = 500 estadales = about 1437.5 square meters
• Valencia Province 1 Fanega / Fanegada = 800 square varas = 6393 23/25 Parisian square feet
  • 6 fanegadas = 1 cahizada
  • 36 fanegadas = 1 yugada
• Canary Islands 1 fanegada = 7511 1/9 square varas = 52.4829 ares

The royal measure was the Fanega de marco real . Legally, the measure was 24 times 24, i.e. 576 square estadales.

• 60 fanegas = 1 Caballeria = about 387.3739 ares

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, pp. 86, 88
• Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Coin, measure and weight book: The money, measure and exchange system, the rates, government papers, banks, trading establishments and customs of all countries and important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E. Behm: Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. XXI