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What is a barrio?

What is a barrio? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
  2. (in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
  3. (in the Phillippines) A barangay.
  4. (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
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It is almost a decade since Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's third team – no matter what Getafe say – faced Real Madrid in their barrio.
But everyone in Pablo's barrio seems to have benefited from those who have contact with foreigners.
Rayo Vallecano's former manager described them as the last of the barrio teams, not just in their neighbourhood but of their neighbourhood.
We go to a new barrio still being built on the rural fringes of La Matanza.
Alberto often pushed a shopping cart through his barrio, collecting cans for spare cash to support himself and his mayate.
They had even reserved a storeroom in the maquiladora workers' barrio of Maclovio Rojas to house the confiscated machines.

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