Mecate (unit)

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Mecate was a measure of length in Honduras . It is comparable to the measure of cord, rope or rope and was used to measure land.

1 mecate = 20 meters

literature

Peter Kurzwell: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 253.