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Meaning of barrio




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

barrio
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In Colombia it is an administrative division of a municipality in the urban area and is governed by the Junta de Acción Comunal. In the rural area, they are the Veredas. In Mexico it is called Colonia.

  




furoya

Municipal division of a city or town . It is also said of a suburb, a suburban locality dependent on or related to a larger city. It comes from the Arabic 1576; 1585; 1610; (barrii "from the countryside, outside the city walls") . See "The Other Neighborhood", forest (lunfardo).

  



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