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Barrio (Spanish pronunciation:) is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood".In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, architectural or morphological features. [1]
Vecindad (Spanish, 'neighborhood'; concept of householder, citizenship) is a deeply-rooted Hispanic concept with various meanings, depending on historical or geographical context. In Mexico, it is often used to refer to multifamily apartment dwellings converted from aristocratic residences, or designed in similar fashion.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Yabucoa is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Entrevías is a neighbourhood of Madrid belonging to the district of Puente de Vallecas.As of 2019 it was the poorest neighborhood in the municipality. [1]According to the National Institute of Statistics, the population of Entrevías in 2006 was 37,790.
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
The first Spanish mission referred to the settlement variously as Rancho Tía Juana, Tihuan and finally, Tijuana. [20] While the city was founded as “Tijuana” in 1889, "Tia Juana" remained the English-language name for the river, as well as a U.S. settlement that is now part of San Ysidro , until approximately 1916.
Following the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Los Angeles, the term barrio took on new meaning. As early as 1872, Spanish-speaking editors were writing the problems of the barrio which the Anglos referred to as Sonoratown. The community was exploited for their labor and was a center for poverty, crime, and illness in the city, yet ...
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Researchers ...