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‖ poblacion|poblaˈsjon, -ˈθjon|
Also población. Pl. poblaciones.
[Sp., = population; also, town, city, village.]
a. In Spanish-speaking countries of South America: a community; a district of a town, etc.
b. In the Republic of the Philippines: the principal community of a district; a town that is an administrative centre.
1926J. Masefield Odtaa xiv. 236 The hut, like the other huts of the poblacion, was, at a guess, thirty feet long by fifteen broad. 1961Webster, Población.., a center of a municipality in the Philippines that is usu. the barrio that gives the municipality its name and is the seat of government. 1964A. Cutshall Philippines iii. 27 The postwar Philippine barrio and oftentimes the poblacion, the principal community in the municipality (county), is not appreciably different from the representative prewar village and town. 1967M. C. Bello in M. D. Zamora Stud. Philippine Anthropol. 325 The site studied is the poblacion which refers to a group of contiguous villages found toward the middle of the region... The poblacion settlement is situated on the top of a mountain. 1978Listener 23 Nov. 668/2 The barrio or poblaciones, the shanty-towns of the poor. 1979E. Norman Christianity & World Order iv. 47 In 1978 I visited the working class poblaciones around Santiago, in Chile. |