Tinaja

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The Tinaja , actually a large clay jug, was a volume measure for liquids especially for the trade in coconut oil and liquid indigo with a low color. Indigo was also traded after the quintal. The measure was a Spanish pound in the Philippines , then the Spanish East Indies.

  • 1 Tinaja = 12 gallons (indigo)
  • 1 Tinaja = 67.6 pounds (Spanish) (coconut oil )
  • 1 Tinaja = 16 Gantas = 128 Chupas = 3,171 Parisian cubic inches = 62.9 liters
  • 1 Ganta = 8 Chupas = about 3 liters

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noback: General Börsen- u. Account book: Contains the entire stock, fund, monetary system, bills of exchange and Bid rates, exchange law, measures, weights, usages, etc. Appendix: Telegraph, postal u. Insurance. Volume 3, Adolf Gumprecht, Leipzig 1862, p. 160.
  2. ^ Andreas Feodor Jagor: Travels in the Philippines. 1873 (1982), ISBN 978-3-98001-548-6 , p. XV