barriada

[bahr-ee-ah-duh, bar-, bahr-ryah-thah]

noun

plural

barriadas 

1. a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of barriada¹

First recorded in 1955–60; from Latin American Spanish (Peru), where the term was first applied to such settlements in Lima; from Spanish: literally, “district, quarter,” equivalent to barri(o) + -ada; barrio, -ade ¹

Example Sentences

Torres points out where rain seeps into the bedroom of her small house in a San Juan neighborhood known as Barriada Figueroa, where the narrow streets surged with floodwaters during the Sept. 20 storm.

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All while other San Juaneros, in sections of neighborhoods like fashionable Ocean Park and working class Barriada Figueroa, were heaping soggy, ruined furniture into piles and pulling felled trees off roofs.

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The new school next to the illusory La Barriada on the mainland should have opened three years ago.

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And what about La Barriada, and the construction of those 300 homes he promised back in 2015?

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And there are signs the government's commitment is genuine - housing officials have since visited La Barriada to inspect the land.

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