One property seems to be made up of numerous small pieces of land, the sheet has the area of each piece listed in 3 columns, ha, a and ca. One piece will be 1 54 80 (in 3 columns), which as you say is probably 15 480 m2. I did meet a Farmer while I was over there who was originally from England, he referred to Hectares and Ares which is the first time I'd heard the use of Ares. I surmised that the origin of the word Hectare was from Hecto and Are as the Are is one tenth of a hectare.
From brittanica.com are, basic unit of area in the metric system, equal to 100 square metres and the equivalent of 0.0247 acre. Its multiple, the hectare (equal to 100 ares), is the principal unit of land measurement for most of the world. Mike On 21/06/2011, at 08:36 , John M. Steele wrote: > Do you mean it is "mixed base?" The ares are only the residue from an integer > number of hectares? And the centiares (which are square meters, if that's > what they are) are residue from integer ares? (I've never seen anyone use > centiares, so I don't know whether you keep or drop the "i", centares? It > might get confused with a centaur.) > > That is pretty shocking usage from the country that claims to have brought > the metric system. > > I don't speak French. > > From: Michael Payne <[email protected]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 7:58:28 AM > Subject: [USMA:50701] Land area France > > I'm looking at buying a piece of property in France. I notice on the > documents that they list the area as Hectares (ha) ares (a) and ca which I'm > thinking are centiare? Anyone on this list have any idea if this is correct. > > On another note, I'm looking for someone to translate a 15 page document into > English, I'm willing to pay for the service. > > Mike Payne >
