barriada
Also spelled: la barriada
What does barriada mean?
A housing development of identical homes, usually social housing, built all at once and given its own name. It is the basic unit of Panamanian urban life: you are not from a street, you are from a barriada.
Example
I grew up in a barriada in San Miguelito.Yo me crié en una barriada de San Miguelito.
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