# Chacra

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{{Short description|Type of farming property}}
{{About|the Quechua term|other uses|Chakra (disambiguation){{!}}Chakra (disambiguation)}}

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'''Chacra''' is an [Andean](/source/Spanish_language) term (a [loanword](/source/loanword) from the [Quechua](/source/Quechua_language) word ''chakra'', meaning "[farm](/source/farm), agricultural [field](/source/Field_(agriculture)), or land [sown](/source/sowing) with seed";<ref name=laime>Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)</ref><ref>Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)</ref><ref>[http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=chacra Chacra], [RAE](/source/Real_Academia_Espa%C3%B1ola). Retrieved on July 4, 2012.</ref> Hispanicized spellings include ''chacra'', ''chajra'', and ''chagra'') for a small [garden](/source/garden) or farm, often on the outskirts of a city, which produces food for the inhabitants of the city. The term is most commonly used to refer to farms located on ''[ejido](/source/ejido)s'' (agricultural commons) in parts of [Latin America](/source/Latin_America). ''Chacras'' today are frequently used for [horticulture](/source/horticulture) as well.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

The word has been borrowed into [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language) as ''chácara'' and is commonly used in [Brazil](/source/Brazil) to refer to a small farm.

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