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tarea or tárea

English translation: tarea (land area unit in D.R. and Caribbean region)

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Spanish term or phrase:tarea (unidad de medida)
English translation:tarea (land area unit in D.R. and Caribbean region)
Entered by: Margarita Palatnik (X)

16:56 Aug 28, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: tarea or tárea
a unit of measure (area) equal to approx 600 square meters. Had never seen it before. From the Dominican Republic.
Margarita Palatnik (X)
Local time: 21:15
tarea (don't translate)
Explanation:
Tarea
Una Tarea es una unidad de medida agraria, que equivale a 629 metros cuadrados, aproximadamente
http://home.earthlink.net/~rrurena/jlg/glosario.html

Algunas medidas, sin incluir las del sistema métrico, son (se señalan con un asterisco inicial las que han desparecido o son de muy pocos uso en la actualidad):

- Tarea, que también se llamó Cuerda; es una superficie de 10 varas conuqueras o 30 varas castellanas de lado. Es la medida usual en los trabajos de campo y equivale a 628.86 metros cuadrados
http://www.jmarcano.com/mipais/diversos/medidas2.html

MEASURES:

Metric system, although the tarea is often used: 6.4 tareas=1 acre; 15.9 tareas=1 ha
http://www.viewswire.com/index.asp?layout=VWcountryVW3&count...



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Note added at 8 mins (2007-08-28 17:05:24 GMT)
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tarea
a traditional unit of land area in the Dominican Republic and some parts of Central America. The tarea is generally equal to 900 square varas, so it is the area of a square 30 varas (about 25.05 meters) on a side. In the Dominican Republic, the tarea equals about 628 square meters or 751 square yards; this is 0.0628 hectare or 0.155 acre. The Spanish word tarea means a task or job, so this unit, like many land area units, originated as the area which could be "worked" in a given time.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictT.html
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Luisa Moura Almeida
Local time: 02:15
Grading comment
Thanks much Luisa!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3tarea (don't translate)
Luisa Moura Almeida
4"tareas" (Dominican local land measurement unit equivalent to 629 square meters)
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
4square feet or meters
John Rawlins


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
tarea (don't translate)


Explanation:
Tarea
Una Tarea es una unidad de medida agraria, que equivale a 629 metros cuadrados, aproximadamente
http://home.earthlink.net/~rrurena/jlg/glosario.html

Algunas medidas, sin incluir las del sistema métrico, son (se señalan con un asterisco inicial las que han desparecido o son de muy pocos uso en la actualidad):

- Tarea, que también se llamó Cuerda; es una superficie de 10 varas conuqueras o 30 varas castellanas de lado. Es la medida usual en los trabajos de campo y equivale a 628.86 metros cuadrados
http://www.jmarcano.com/mipais/diversos/medidas2.html

MEASURES:

Metric system, although the tarea is often used: 6.4 tareas=1 acre; 15.9 tareas=1 ha
http://www.viewswire.com/index.asp?layout=VWcountryVW3&count...



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Note added at 8 mins (2007-08-28 17:05:24 GMT)
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tarea
a traditional unit of land area in the Dominican Republic and some parts of Central America. The tarea is generally equal to 900 square varas, so it is the area of a square 30 varas (about 25.05 meters) on a side. In the Dominican Republic, the tarea equals about 628 square meters or 751 square yards; this is 0.0628 hectare or 0.155 acre. The Spanish word tarea means a task or job, so this unit, like many land area units, originated as the area which could be "worked" in a given time.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictT.html

Luisa Moura Almeida
Local time: 02:15
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in DutchDutch
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"tareas" (Dominican local land measurement unit equivalent to 629 square meters)


Explanation:
Tarea
Una Tarea es una unidad de medida agraria, que equivale a 629 metros cuadrados, aproximadamente.

tareas (unidad de medida rural dominicana equivalente a 626,6 metros cuadrados)



JSTOR: The Role of Haitian Braceros in Dominican Sugar Production- [ Traduzca esta página ]In the Dominican Republic this tendency also manifests itself, .... despite innu- 4A Dominican unit of land measurement equal to 629 square meters. 126 ...
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[PDF] COUNTRY STRATEGY OUTLINESFormato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
The Dominican Republic is a small country (48000 square kilometres) which shares the .... A local land measurement unit, equivalent to 629 square metres. ...
www.wfp.org/eb/docs/1998/wfp000294~1.pdf - Páginas similares


"Land ownership is concentrated. The Government owns 22 percent of agricultural lands. Three percent of land owners possess one third of the total land area and operate on plots of more than 200 hectares; 12.2 percent of the land is owned by 81.7 percent of the people in the form of plots under five hectares. Most food is produced on small plots. The Agrarian Reform of the seventies limited rice plots to a maximum of 31.25 hectares (497 TAREAS*). Over 50 percent of rice production is currently provided by the peasants of the Dominican Agrarian Institute. The Agrarian Reform distributed land but did not hand over deeds to those who worked it. This resulted in reduced incentives to invest in agriculture and improving productivity. Private banks gave little priority to funding the agricultural sector. The Agricultural Bank is not in a position to supply such financing, since it has longstanding problems of lack of liquidity. This has forced the Government to transfer resources, or grant emergency funds.
*LOCAL LAND MEASUREMENT UNIT EQUIV. TO 629 SQUARE METERS."

http://www.wfp.org/eb/docs/1998/wfp000294~1.pdf

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Local time: 02:15
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 132
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square feet or meters


Explanation:
I often translate Spanish land sale documents into English and always translate non-metric measurements into something standard (US or metric). I don't believe most foreign buyers want to struggle with the local, and usually antiquated, measurements that every country seems to have.

However, if this not a commercial document then tareas would be fine.



John Rawlins
Spain
Local time: 02:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
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