Square Meters to Tareas Converter

628.86 m² make one Dominican tarea — the crossover point between talking in metres and talking in tareas.

Conversion table

Area	In tareas
10	0.015902 ta
25	0.039754 ta
50	0.079509 ta
75	0.11926 ta
100	0.15902 ta
150	0.23853 ta
200	0.31804 ta
250	0.39754 ta
300	0.47705 ta
400	0.63607 ta
500	0.79509 ta
600	0.95411 ta
750	1.1926 ta
1,000	1.5902 ta
1,500	2.3853 ta

🏡 Plot sizes at a glance

1 tarea628.86 m²
300 m² (typical lot)0.477 tareas
1,000 m²1.59 tareas
1 tarea6,769 ft²

Talking about plots without confusion

Below about 600 m² everything is quoted in square metres; above it the tarea takes over. The overlap between 600 and 3,000 m² is where pricing mistakes happen.
A tarea is a square roughly 25 m on each side. If a lot is 25 by 25 paces, it is close to one tarea.
A surveyed title states the area in square metres. If a listing in tareas disagrees with the plan, the plan is the document that counts.
Price per square metre and price per tarea are not interchangeable: multiply the per-metre price by 628.86 before comparing.

Where metres stop and tareas start

One tarea is 628.86 square metres, the area of a square thirty varas on a side. That size sits exactly at the boundary between two ways of speaking about land: a house lot of 300 square metres, a garden of 150, a house of 180 — all in metres — while anything from about half a hectare upwards gets described in tareas. Neither unit is more official than the other in conversation, but they describe different scales of transaction, which is why the same seller will use both within one sentence and why converting between them is a daily task rather than an academic one.

What the title deed actually says

The modern Dominican property registry works in square metres. A parcel that has gone through deslinde — the survey and registration process that produces a plan and an individual title — carries its area in square metres on both documents, to two decimal places. The tarea survives in the listing, the negotiation and the price per unit, but it is not the legal figure. When a listing quoted in tareas and a plan quoted in metres disagree, the plan governs, and the difference is worth checking before any deposit changes hands.

Plot sizes in metres and tareas

A typical urban house lot: 200–400 m², which is 0.32 to 0.64 tareas.
A generous suburban lot: 600–1,000 m², roughly 1 to 1.6 tareas.
One tarea: 628.86 m², a square about 25 m on a side.
A small country parcel: 3,000–6,000 m², or 4.8 to 9.5 tareas.
Half a hectare: 5,000 m², which is 7.95 tareas.
One hectare: 10,000 m², or 15.9 tareas — the point where sellers switch units.

What to check before you buy

Ask for the surveyed area in square metres and compare it with the area advertised in tareas. A gap of more than a per cent deserves an explanation.
Confirm whether the parcel is deslindado. Land held under an older undivided title has no individual plan and no certified area.
Price per tarea and price per square metre describe the same deal; divide one by 628.86 to check the other.
Setbacks, easements and road frontage reduce buildable area without changing the titled area at all.
A plot on a slope has the same area in plan as a flat one but far less usable ground.
Traditional measurements taken with a cord can differ from a modern survey by several per cent, almost always in the seller's favour.

Worked examples

Lots, parcels and prices

A 1,000 m² lot

1,000 ÷ 628.86 = 1.59 tareas
That is 0.1 hectares
In square feet: 10,764

1,000 m² = 1.59 tareas

Comparing two prices

Seller A: 1,200 per tarea
Seller B: 2.00 per m² → 2.00 × 628.86 = 1,258 per tarea
Seller A is the cheaper of the two

2.00 per m² = 1,258 per tarea

Frequently Asked Questions

How many square metres are in a tarea?

628.86 square metres, the area of a square thirty Dominican varas on a side, or about 25.08 m per side. The other way round, one square metre is 0.00159 tareas, so 1,000 m² is 1.59 tareas.

Is a 300 m² lot more or less than half a tarea?

It is 0.477 tareas, so slightly under half. Half a tarea is 314.43 m². Dominican urban lots usually fall between 200 and 400 m², which is precisely the band where nobody speaks in tareas.

Which unit is my title deed in?

Square metres. The modern registry works metrically, so a surveyed parcel states its area in square metres to two decimals on both the plan and the certificate. The tarea stays with the listing and the negotiation.

How do I compare a price per tarea with a price per square metre?

Multiply the per-square-metre price by 628.86 to get the price per tarea. Land at 2.00 per metre is 1,258 per tarea; another plot advertised at 1,200 per tarea is cheaper. Comparing the raw numbers tells you nothing.

What is deslinde and why does it matter?

It is the survey and registration process that separates a parcel from a larger title and gives it its own plan and certificate, with a certified area in square metres. Without it there is no official area, only the seller's figure — and that gap is what shows up when someone measures.

At what size do people stop talking in metres?

In practice, at around one tarea. Below 600 m² almost everyone quotes square metres; above it the tarea appears, and past fifteen or sixteen tareas sellers switch again, this time to hectares.