Chacra

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

thumb|Cerro Shumba '''Chacra''' is an Andean term (a loanword from the Quechua word ''chakra'', meaning "farm, agricultural field, or land sown 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. Retrieved on July 4, 2012.</ref> Hispanicized spellings include ''chacra'', ''chajra'', and ''chagra'') for a small 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 ''ejidos'' (agricultural commons) in parts of Latin America. ''Chacras'' today are frequently used for horticulture as well.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

The word has been borrowed into Portuguese as ''chácara'' and is commonly used in Brazil to refer to a small farm.

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Category:Farms by type Category:Quechua words and phrases Category:Spanish words and phrases