ARROBA

Updated 05-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about ARROBA!

arroba | Diccionario de la lengua española: 1. f. Peso equivalente a 11,502 kg. 2. f. En Aragón, peso equivalente a 12,5 kg. 3. f. Pesa de una arroba. 4. f. Medida de líquidos que varía de peso según las zonas geográficas y los mismos líquidos.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: arroba was a custom unit of weight, mass or volume . it is still used in Portugal by cork merchants . modern metric armroba is defined as 15 kilograms (33 lb) Bolivian arroba is equivalent to 30.46 litres (6.70 imp gal; 8.05 US gal) in Peru and 11.5 kilograms (25 lb) in Bolivia . however locally there are many different values