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What does barriada mean?

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barriada

A low income neighborhood or shantytown characterized by makeshift housing and a lack of basic services. (In Peru, these settlements were typically established by rural migrants who occupied land on the outskirts of major cities).

In the 60s, people started to migrate toward the capital and settled in barriadas.

Automatically translated from Spanish

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