barrio

noun4

1. •
   A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2. •
   A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
3. •
   (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
4. •
   (US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

   • Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio — 1993