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In Guatemala, a cuerda is a traditional unit of distance, equal to exactly 25 varas [1] or almost 21 meters (nearly 69 feet).. During 19th-century Spain, a cuerda was a unit of length, of nearly 6.889 m (approx. 7.554 yd). [2]
The labor (/ l ə ˈ b ɔːr / in West Texas) is a unit of area, used to express an area of land, that is equal to 1 million square varas.A labor is equivalent to about 177.1 acres (71.67 ha).
Among the Guatemalan units of measurement some are based on old Spanish units; they include the vara and cuadra linear measurements; the vara cuadrada, the manzana and the cuerda units of area; and the libra, arroba, quintal and garrafón units of weight and volume.
Longitude (λ); Lines of longitude appear vertical with varying curvature in this projection, but are actually halves of great ellipses, with identical radii at a given latitude.
Several units were used to measure length. Legua was approximately equal to 2 2/3 in, [2] which is substantially different from the value of a Legua in Spanish customary units and a League elsewhere, which varied from about 1,500 metres to 11,000 metres.
Davis Love III, hits from the rough along the fifth fairway during first round of the 2016 Honda Classic Thursday February 25, 2016, at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens.
Length is a measure of distance.In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived.
Other units of area described by Columella in his De Re Rustica include the porca of 180 × 30 Roman feet (about 473 m 2 or 5,090 sq ft) used in Hispania Baetica and the Gallic candetum or cadetum of 100 feet [clarification needed] in the city or 150 in the country.