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- ↑ Units - Cuerda. Sizes.com. Puerto Rico Act 135, section 4 (page 100), 1913–14, as amended by Act No. 3, 1913–14: A cuerda, quote: "a unit of land area, approximately 3,930 square meters (approximately 0.971 acres)...In land measurements and records, the measurement by cuerda customarily used in Porto [sic] Rico...equivalent to 3,930.395625 square meters..."
- ↑ Eli Oquendo Rodriguez. Los Barrios de Ponce: Noticias y Microhistorias de Ocho Comunidades Ponceñas en el Tiempo: Siglos XVI al XIX.. Lajas, Puerto Rico: Editorial Akelarre. 2019. pp. 183-185.
- ↑ Caballería (Spanish). Sizes.com Accessed 22 October 2019.
- ↑ Eli Oquendo Rodriguez. Los Barrios de Ponce: Noticias y Microhistorias de Ocho Comunidades Ponceñas en el Tiempo: Siglos XVI al XIX.. Lajas, Puerto Rico: Editorial Akelarre. 2019. pp. 183-184.