How is land measured in the DR?
Officially, the metric system should be used in all real estate transactions, the hectare (10,000 m2 = 2.47 acres) being the basic unit. However, the “tarea”, a unit of measurement from colonial times equivalent to 628.86 m2 is still widely used. An acre is equivalent to approximately 0.4 hectares or 4004 m2 or 6.4 tareas.