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barriada, n.
Brit. |ˌbarɪˈɑːdə|, U.S. |ˌbɑriˈɑdə|
[‹ Peruvian Spanish barriada a settlement of this type, spec. use of Spanish barriada district, quarter (18th cent.; from late 19th cent. or earlier referring specifically to a poor urban area) > n. + -ada -ade suffix.]
In Peru: a settlement of (recent) migrants, or an area of improvised housing, typically impoverished or lacking public utilities, and situated on the outskirts of a large city; a shanty town, a slum.
Such areas were officially renamed pueblos jovenes in 1968, although informal usage continues. Cf. pueblo joven n.
1959Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 2 Aug. (Pictorial Gravure Mag. section) 10/1 New arrivals in Lima go to one of the established barriadas,..or they ‘invade’ a piece of property and start their own barriada. 1964Times 10 Dec. 11/2 Comas, one of the rapidly expanding barriadas..on the outskirts of Lima, to which electric current was soon to be connected. 1971Lat. Amer. (Nexis) 7 May 149 Carpio..had previously been directly responsible to the prime minister, administering the pueblos jovenes, as Lima's shanty towns (formerly barriadas) are now supposed to be called. 1991San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 18 May a1 In a barriada in Peru, people live close together... You can't hide..when people live behind cardboard and tin walls. 2001B. Lietaer Future of Money 140 Their descendants are still there in the barrios, barriadas, villas, favelas, and other shanty towns. |