Convert hectometer to yard (spanish)

The in-between metric units are taught at school and then mostly forgotten – except regionally. Dutch motorways carry a 'hectometre post' every 100 m, so traffic news and breakdown services place a jam at 'A2, hectometre post 57.3'. In Sweden and Norway the decimetre is an everyday word, a half-decimetre being about two inches, and the decilitre does the same job in Nordic recipes. The decametre is the odd one out: 10 m is about the length of a bus, and the unit is hardly used anywhere.

The vara of Burgos, 0.8359 m, was Spain's standard yard from 1801 until the metre replaced it; it divided into 3 pies (feet), 36 pulgadas (inches), 432 líneas and 5,184 puntos, and a paso (pace) was 5/3 of a vara. The vara travelled to the colonies and was fixed differently in each: 0.838 m in Mexico, 0.866 m in Argentina, and 33⅓ inches (0.847 m) in Texas and California, where old land grants are still described in varas.