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The old Castilian units of length or distance are listed in the following table. The names "pulgada," "pie," "vara," and "milla" are often used as Spanish translations of the corresponding United States customary units when measurements in those units are translated into Spanish.

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  • The old Castilian units of length or distance are listed in the following table. The names "pulgada," "pie," "vara," and "milla" are often used as Spanish translations of the corresponding United States customary units when measurements in those units are translated into Spanish.
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  • The old Castilian units of length or distance are listed in the following table. The names "pulgada," "pie," "vara," and "milla" are often used as Spanish translations of the corresponding United States customary units when measurements in those units are translated into Spanish. No actual Castilian standards are definitively known by the present day, so that the only way of determining the length of any Old Castilian unit would be to measure something in modern terms whose length was given by the Castilians in their units. And because this procedure does not give us any clue to which unit may have been the base unit and which were subsidiary units, this distinction really does not apply to the Old Castilian units here given, so all the units really have equal status. However, most references appear to have treated the vara (Castilian yard) as the base unit, expressing other units in terms of the vara. The values in this table are based on the figure of 0.835905 m for the length of the vara, given by Cardarelli in his tabulation, which has presumably been determined by measurements of distances expressed in terms of the vara. This value is given in Wikipedia as well. Other values have been found in the literature as well, differing slightly from Cardarelli's. Entries in this table are from Cardarelli, except that two units not cited by Cardarelli have been added: the coto = ⅛ vara (not to be confused with the codo which is four times as large), and cordel = 50 varas. It should be noted that Cardarelli writes "codo" as "codoc" in his table, but this unit does not look like a Spanish name, and "codo" appears to be the correct name. A somewhat different table of equivalences is given by Woolhouse. Note that he gives the equivalences in terms of British linear measure as of 1864, but the difference between the standard Imperial yard of that time and the modern International yard are inconsequential. The metric values are thus given by conversion, assuming the value of the international units.
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