Meaning & use
Varas
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Traditional Spanish and Latin American units of length, each roughly equivalent to about 33 inches, historically used in land surveying.
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The old Texas land grant described a plot measuring two hundred varas on each side.
Historians converting colonial-era deeds must account for the varying length of varas by region.
A note on using this word
Plural of 'vara'; the exact length varied by country and era, which still complicates historical land surveys today.
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