Talk:Honduran units of measurement

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Carga, quintal, and fanega[edit]

During my time in the Peace Corps, in the countryside in Honduras, the farmers referred to a quintal as 100 libras (≈ pounds) and a carga as two quintals. They refer to one sack of coffee as a quintal and two sacks as the amount that a horse can carry, hence the carga.

Russ Rowlett, says that the Spanish quintal is 100 libras, same as said by the farmers in Honduras. However, he says that a quintal as "often used as a unit of mass or weight equal to 3 quintals or as a unit of volume equal to the volume holding 3 quintals of the commodity being shipped."^[1]

I've never heard of the fanega. Described on this page as about 2 quintales, which is a carga in Honduras. Russ Rowlett (https://www.ibiblio.org/units/dictF.html) defines fanega as a Spanish unit of volume equal to 12 almudes or 48 cuartillos; about 55.50 liters or 1.960 cubic feet (1.575 U.S. bushels). --Catrachos (talk) 16:44, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Rowlett, Russ (2018). "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". ibiblio. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

US Gallon Being Used in Honduras[edit]

According to the Metrication and Gallon articles, Honduras is one of the several counties that uses the US Gallon for measuring gasoline (and presumably diesel fuel and kerosene as well). Would this be note worthy enough to add to this article? --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 21:30, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Rowlett, Russ (2018). "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". ibiblio. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

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