fanegada

[ fah-ne-gah-thah ]

noun

, plural fa·ne·ga·das [fah-ne-, gah, -, th, ahs].

1. a unit of land measure in Spanish-speaking countries varying from 1.25 to 1.75 acres (0.5 to 0.7 hectare).

Word History and Origins

Origin of fanegada¹

From Spanish; fanega, -ade ¹

Example Sentences

On the best managed estates there are not more than 1,000 trees to a fanegada—about one and three-quarters acres of land—and it is calculated that an average annual yield for such a fanegada should be about twenty quintals, a little more than 2,032 pounds of merchantable coffee.

From Project Gutenberg

The fifth, the number of plants in a Spanish "fanegada" of 170 varras, about 153 square yards.

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