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Cuerda (PR) - regional land area
Cuerda is a regional land-area unit used officially in Puerto Rico, defined by law as exactly 3,930.395625 square meters. Used in real estate, agriculture, and land records across Puerto Rico; historical values elsewhere vary by country and era.
- Names/aliases: cuerda, cuerdas (plural)
- System: Regional (Puerto Rico; non-SI, accepted alongside SI)
- Exact (Puerto Rico): 1 cuerda = 3,930.395625 m² = 0.3930395625 ha
- Imperial/US equivalents: 1 cuerda ≈ 0.97122191 acres ≈ 42,306.4263 ft²
- Typical examples: parcel sizes, farm plots, zoning and cadastral documents in Puerto Rico
Tatami mat (畳, jō) - Japanese flooring unit of area
Tatami mat is a traditional Japanese flooring module used as a practical unit of area; room sizes are often stated by the count of mats (jō). Dimensions vary regionally, so one tatami has no single national standard.
- Names/aliases: tatami, 畳 (jō); room size written as “n-jō”
- System: Traditional Japanese (non-SI)
- Typical sizes (area):
• Kyōma (Kyoto): 0.955 m × 1.910 m = 1.824 m² ≈ 19.63 ft²
• Chūkyōma (Nagoya): 0.910 m × 1.820 m = 1.656 m² ≈ 17.83 ft²
• Edoma/Kantōma (Tokyo area): 0.880 m × 1.760 m = 1.5488 m² ≈ 16.67 ft²
• Other regional modules exist; common range ≈ 1.55–1.82 m² per mat
- Room estimates: 6-jō room ≈ 9–11 m² depending on region; 8-jō ≈ 12–15 m²
- Construction note: buildings often use tatami modules as planning grids; mats are rectangular with length ≈ 2 × width