Hacienda (unit)

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Hacienda was a Mexican field and area measure.

  • 1 hacienda = 125,000,000 square vara (25,000 times 5000 vara ) = 5 leguas cuadrada = 8778.0500 hectares

The Vara as a square measure can be assumed to be 0.702244 square meters and the Legua cuadrada ( square mile ) with 1755.61 hectares.

literature

  • Paul S. George: Mexico Today and Its Cultural Advances. G. Fischer, 1906, reprint of the publishing house Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-5-88395-172-4 , 2013, p. 104.
  • 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. 117 .