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104 Criadero de Ganado Mayor (place for breeding animals). —It is a square equal to a fourth part of a sitio de ganado mayor, whose sides measure 2,500 varas, and contains an area of 6,250,000 square varas.

Sitio de Ganado Menor (farm for raising sheep or goats). —The form of a sitio de estancia de ganado menor is a square whose sides measure 3,333 varas. Its area contains 11,111,111 square varas.

Criadero de Ganado menor.—It is a square whose sides measure l,666 varas, and its area contains 2,777,777 square varas.

Caballeria de Tierra (33 acres American measure).—The form of a caballeria de tierra is a rectangular parallelogram whose north or small side contains 552 varas, and whose greatest length is 1,104 varas. Its area contains 609,408 square varas.

Media Caballeria de Tierra.—It is a square whose side measures 552 varas, and contains 304,704 square varas.

Suerte de Tierra (lot of ground—a chance).—It is the fourth part of a caballeria de tierra, and the same figure, whose long side measures 552 varas, and 276 in width. It contains 152,352 square varas.

The Caballeria de Tierra is also divided into twelve fanegas of good seed-oats. The fanega is equal to three American bushels or a superficies of 8-5624 American acres.

Solar de Tierra (ground on which a house is built—town-lot).—Any parcel of land less than a suerte.

Solar para Casas (for houses, mills, and markets).—It is a square of 50 varas—2,500 square varas.

Fundo Legal (a piece of ground which is cultivated; town site).—It is a tract of land whose form is a square of 1,200 varas on each side, and contains an area of 1,440,000 square varas.

Porcion.—Porcion is a measure sometimes used. It is a tract of land 1,000 varas wide and 16,000 varas long.