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Perch (square perch, square rod, pole, lug) - traditional land area
Perch is a historical Imperial/US customary unit of area equal to one square rod. Used in older cadastral records and property descriptions alongside roods and acres.
- Symbol: none standardized (written as “perch”, “sq perch”, or “square rod”)
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 perch = 1 square rod = (16.5 ft)² = 272.25 ft² = (5.0292 m)² = 25.29285264 m²
- Other relations: 40 perches = 1 rood; 160 perches = 1 acre; 16 perches = 1 square chai
- Typical examples: plot descriptions such as “2 roods 13 perches”; 19th-century deeds and survey plans
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