Article Nº 0755 Trade, money and prices Vol. I · p. 435
Cana
A former Madeiran unit of land area equal to 30 square metres, thirty of which made an alqueire of land in much of the island.
A unit of area formerly used in Madeira, equal to 30 square metres. In many parts of the island an alqueire (dry measure for grain; as a land measure c. 900 m²) of land is 30 canas, or 900 square metres, but in Funchal it is only 756,225 square metres.
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