Definition of "fanegas" [fanegas]

• Plural form of fanega. (noun)

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• "The province of Caracas, according to Humboldt, at the end of the last century, produced annually 150,000 fanegas of cacao, of which two-thirds were exported to Spain, and the remainder locally consumed."
• "The province of Caracas then produced 150,000 fanegas; Maracaibo,"
• "The annual average cost of cultivating a quarrée in cacao, and manufacturing the produce therefrom, is 35 dollars, in the imperfect manner it is carried on at present, thereby giving only 10 fanegas per quarrée. '"