Mauritius land area converter: perche, toise, arpent to m²

Twelve equivalences worth knowing

• 1 arpent = 100 perches
• 1 arpent = 4,220.87 m²
• 1 arpent = 0.4221 hectares
• 1 arpent = 1.043 acres
• 1 arpent = 1,111.11 toises
• 1 perche = 42.21 m²
• 1 perche = 11.11 toises
• 1 toise = 3.8 m²
• 1 hectare = 2.3692 arpents
• 1 acre = 95.88 perches
• 1 m² = 0.0237 perches
• 1 m² = 10.76 square feet

Common plot sizes

The units

The arpent is an old French unit that Mauritius and the Seychelles never dropped. One arpent is 100 perches: roughly 4,220.87 m², 0.4221 hectares or 1.043 acres.

The perche is a hundredth of an arpent, about 42.21 m² or 11.11 toises.

The toise, also old French, started as a length: 6 old French feet, about 1.949 m. As an area, a square toise is about 3.80 m², and an arpent holds roughly 1,111 of them.

Square metres, hectares (10,000 m²), acres (4,046.86 m²) and square feet (0.0929 m²) follow the international definitions of the metre, the foot and the acre.