Quartera

The quartera was a Spanish measure of volume. A distinction was made between a grain measure , which was valid in Catalonia ( Barcelona ) and the Balearic Islands , and a liquid and wine measure on these Spanish islands.

Grain measure

Catalonia

The dimensional chain was

• 1 Salma / Tonnelada = 4 Quarteras = 48 Cortanes = 192 Picotins
• 1 carga / load = 2 ½ quarteras
• 1 Quartera = 3449 Parisian cubic inches = 68 1/3 liters (after 1 Quartera = 71 liters)

Balearic Islands

The dimensional chain was

• 1 Quartera = 6 Barcella = 36 Almudas = 3637 Parisian cubic inches = 72 1/14 liters

liquid measure

Balearic Islands

The liquid measure was only used for wine and brandy in the Balearic Islands.

• 1 quartera = 196 Parisian cubic inches = 3 8/9 liters = 3.8879 liters
• 6 ½ quartenas = 1 quartino
• 26 quartenas = 1 carga

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 263.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of practical merchants: Latest Illustrirtes Handels- und Waaren-Lexicon or Encyclopädie. Volume 2, Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 423.
2. ^ ^{A b} Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1854, p. 115.