Year: 1991
Type: report
Abstract: Distancia punto 1/12 linea linea 12 puntos pulgada 12 lineas cuartd1 8 pulgadas pie or tercia 12 pulgadas vara 3 pies ydrdd 36 pulgadas braza 2 varas estado or estadel 2 brazas cuadra2 75 frrozas WI//03 5,000 p/es, 1666 2 / 3 varas 1 Except Guatemala, Nicaragua/ and Spain where a cuarta is 9 pulgadas.2 Except Colombia where 100 brazas is a cuadra and in Ecuador/ Paraguay, and Uruguay where 100 varas is a cuadra.3 Except Nicaragua where a 7m7/a is 2,200 varas.In Ecuador the cuarta is known as cuarto or palma.In Guatemala a mecate is 24 paras.In Spain a oWo is 1 /12 of a palma and 1 /28 of a uara.The length of a para varies according to country: Argentina 0.8667 meters Bolivia 0.866 meters Brazil 1.111 meters Chile 0.8359 meters Colombia 0.8 meters Costa Rica 0.836 meters Cuba 0.848 meters Curacao 0.8477 meters Ecuador 0.84 meters El Salvador 0.836 meters Guatemala 0.8359 meters Honduras 0.835 meters Mexico 0.83800 meters Nicaragua 0.84 meters Panama 0.80 meters Paraguay 0.8666 meters Peru 0.8382 meters
DOI: 10.3133/ofr91579
Author: Keith R. Long
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W93060045