Sitio (unit)

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Sitio or Sitio de ganado mayor , (also square Legua; Spanish Legua cuadrada ; English square league ), was a Mexican square measure. Already in 1567 the Vara (Castilian) was established as a yard and the basis of the official land measures in so-called New Spain .

definition

A legua (as a measure of length) always comprised 5000 vara. The Vara as a measure of length (and thus also the square Vara) was not the same length in different periods and areas and there were accordingly a large number of different conversion factors into the metric or Anglo-Saxon system of measurement depending on the time period and area. Attempts to standardize by central authorities were often not implemented locally, so that the Vara was not a clearly defined measure and detailed clarifications are necessary when reading historical literature.

The term sitio without an addition always meant the sitio de ganado mayor , the deviating definitions were each indicated by an addition. A legua cuadrada (and thus the Sitio de ganado Mayor ) comprised 25,000,000 vara cuadrada, which made up a different area depending on the underlying length of the vara.

There were differences between the pasture area and the elevator area. The Vara can be assumed to be 0.84596 meters long , converted to an area of ​​around 17,891.2 square meters .

  • 1 sitio = 1755.61 hectares (1751.22 hectares)
  • Pasture area (cattle pasture for 1000 animals) for cattle , horses , donkeys , mules
    • 1 sitio de ganado mayor (large square hours) = 25 labores = 25 million square varas = 1750 hectares
  • Pasture area (for 1000 animals) for sheep , goats
    • 1 Sitio de ganado menor (small square hours) = 11,111,111 square varas = 7800 hectares (11,927,467 square meters)
  • Area of ​​a grain and fulling mill
    • 1 Sitio para batan o molino = 2500 square varas = 0.2 hectares

See also

literature

  • Christoph Strosetzki: The Europe of Latin America: Aspects of a 500- year mutual relationship. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989, ISBN 978-3-51505-518-5 , p. 70.
  • James N. Bowman: Weights and Measures of Provincial California. In: California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Dec., 1951), pp. 315-338 jstor.org; English
  • Joseph Wheless: Compendium of the laws of Mexico officially authorized by the Mexican government , 1910, p. 790 in the Internet Archive

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Bowman p. 327 ff.
  2. ↑ Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon: terms, formulas and constants from natural sciences, technology and medicine. Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-32283-211-5 , p. 350.
  3. ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 257.
  4. ^ Christian Carl André, Emil André, Franz Xaver Wilhelm Hlubek: Economic news and negotiations. Journal for all branches of agriculture and housekeeping, forestry and hunting in the Austrian Empire. Volume 2, Calve Bookstore, Prague 1841, S, 570.