Tonelada
Tonelada is the Spanish expression for a metric barrel . Before the metric ton caught on, however, Tonelada was a shipping weight that was used in the Spanish and Portuguese economic areas, but had different classifications. This is how a tonelada called:
Country | Measure / application | Subdivision | metric equivalent |
Spain | Piece measure | 20 quintales = 80 arobas | 920.186 kg |
Portugal, Brazil | for liquids | 2 pipas or 60 almuds | |
Argentina, Uruguay | for liquids and as a grain measure | 1/2 Lastre | 1029 l |
Portugal | Weight measure | 54 arrobas | 793.15 kg |
Chile | for guano | 920 kg | |
Uruguay | for guano | 918.8 kg |
A Spanish tonelada was equivalent to German pounds in 1842 , and a Portuguese tonelada was equivalent to 1586 pounds.
The British ton was often used for shipments, but in Brazil a tonelada of 70 arrobas = 1028 kg was calculated for hard coal .
supporting documents
- Tonelāda . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 19, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 606 .
- Tonelada . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 676-677 ( zeno.org ).