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Cuerda
A cuerda is a traditional unit of area used mainly in Puerto Rico to measure land.
1 cuerda โ 3,930 square meters โ 0.97 acres.
It is commonly used in real estate and agriculture on the island.
The cuerda remains a popular local measurement for land despite the use of metric units.
Section
A section is a land measurement unit used in the United States Public Land Survey System (PLSS). It refers to a square area that is 1 mile on each side, covering:
1 square mile
640 acres
Approximately 2.59 square kilometers
Sections are the basic units within a township (which contains 36 sections) and are commonly used for legal land descriptions and property boundaries.