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Rood (rood) - traditional land area
Rood is a historical Imperial/US customary unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre. Used in older land records, field measurements, and some property descriptions.
- Symbol: none standardized (written as “rood”)
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 rood = 1/4 acre = 40 square rods (perches) = 2.5 square chains
- Other relations: 1 rood = 1 furlong × 1 rod = 10,890 ft² = 1,210 yd²
- Metric equivalents (exact): 1 rood = 1011.7141056 m²
- Typical examples: historical parcel sizes in deeds; subdivision remnants expressed as roods and perches
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