(unit of area) A league can also be a unit of area, used to express the area of land, that is equal to 25 million square . A (square) league is equivalent to about . It was used in the archaic system of old Spanish land grants affecting Texas and parts of adjoining states and this use of league is used throughout the Texas Constitution. A common Texas land grant size, discussed in James A. Michener's Texas, was a " and a league": a of good riparian land and a (square) league of land away from the river. The (square) league is still encountered in modern real estate transactions. Palmo and coto (unit of length) The palmo ("palm") measured the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger with all fingers splayed. Its standardized value is (9 pulgadas). Half of a palmo in Castile was called the coto, described as six fingers and defined as . The ancient Romans had a similar, smaller unit called the palmus, which was . Local units Although some standardisation was achieved with the law of 1801, particularly in defining the league as long, varying measures continued to be used in various cities and regions. Other units , a unit of volume , the fourth part of a , a unit of land measure in Cuba. , a unit of volume equivalent to approximately 4.625 L. , a unit of length used for measuring depths (similar to the fathom); 7 , measure of grain by volume (of which there are 12 ) used in Galicia in northwestern peninsular Spain. (league), a unit of length (ounce), a unit of weight (28 grammes) used for chocolate. (inch: 24.5 mm) used in Spain. , a unit of weight , a unit of land measure in the Philippines. , a unit of land measure in Valencia. and , units of weight , unit of length equal to See also International System of Units Metrication in Guatemala Portuguese customary units Systems of measurement Units of measurement References External links www.sizes.com, "Vara Conversions in 19th Century Spain" Rowlett's A Dictionary of Units of Measurement Reasonover's Land Measures A Reference to Spanish and French land measures(and their English equivalents with conversion tables) used in North America http://www.sizes.com/units/ Systems of units Obsolete units of measurement Customary units of measurement Units of measurement by country