finca, granja, hacienda, rancho ... the difference?

Question

Do all mean farm?

Vivo en una hacienda en Montana eeuu - readytodictate, Jan 20, 2013

muchos lobos, osos, y pumas - readytodictate, Jan 20, 2013

listo a comer mis animales domesticas caballos y ganado - readytodictate, Jan 20, 2013

Answer 1

Sort of farm, but different types of farm.

Finca, in Spain means a smaller farm, with or without a house, it can also mean a house in the country without farmland. It's very flexible. In some parts a farmhouse is called ' cortijo', but in others smaller famhouses may be fincas..

Granja, is a farm. I think it normally has a famhouse and the word may refer to the house.

Hacienda is a large acerage of farmland, or pasture, in South America with a splendid house. ( think Argentina, polo-ponies) . Rancho is from the US, I think and Mexico. Probably large acerages but I don't know, I have never been.

An acre is the English unit of measuring land. Nowadays in Europe we shousl say hectare, really. The Spanish have a measure called a ' fanega' which is not very different in size from an acre.

:) - ian-hill, Jan 19, 2013

buena respuesta tengo una hacienda en Montana - readytodictate, Jan 19, 2013

Gracias, tengo una finca en Inglaterra. - annierats, Jan 19, 2013

que chevere estoy de acuerdo gracias - readytodictate, Jan 20, 2013