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asentamiento poblacional

English translation: population settlement


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Spanish term or phrase:asentamiento poblacional
English translation:population settlement
Entered by: Maria Eugenia Roca Rodriguez
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Spanish term or phrase: asentamiento poblacional
En la Argentina, se llama villa o villa miseria a un asentamiento poblacional donde se instalan familias en condiciones de vida muy precarias, sin agua potable, cloacas y gas natural.
Maria Eugenia Roca Rodriguez
Argentina
Local time: 04:43
population settlement/colony/camp
Explanation:
HTH
terry
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Terry Burgess
Mexico
Local time: 00:43
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6shanty town
Ra91571
4 +3population settlement/colony/camp
Terry Burgess
5 +1Shanty town / settlement
trixiemck


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
population settlement/colony/camp


Explanation:
HTH
terry


    Oxford + exp.
Terry Burgess
Mexico
Local time: 00:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 2372

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Francisco Herrerias: settlement alone would do it...
5 mins
  -> Thanks Francisco:-)))
agree  Henry Hinds: The first one.
4 hrs
  -> Thanks Henry!!...but Rachelle beat me to it:-)))
agree  luskie: what about dwelling also? maybe popular dwelling?
8 hrs
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
shanty town


Explanation:
A village that is run-down, poor conditions, etc. we would call a shanty town.

Ra91571
United States
PRO pts in pair: 192

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Terry Burgess: For the life of me I couldn't remember this one! I prefer it to mine:-)))
18 mins
  -> it's an interesting word!
agree  Jane Lamb-Ruiz
22 mins
  -> gracias
agree  Atacama: THAT, is definitely the expression to use, and like Terry, I just couln't remember it for the life of me. Good call, er Ra91571??? Great name.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks. Ra, short for Rachelle
agree  MJ Barber
7 hrs
agree  Atenea Acevedo
1 day14 hrs
agree  two2tango
1 day23 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Shanty town / settlement


Explanation:
¿Qué necesitás, María? Una villa miseria es una shanty town (del tipo que se ve a los costados de la autopista Buenos Aires - La Plata) o la villa 31 de Retiro, o La Cava (aunque ésta tiene no solo agua sino electricidad, colegio ... una villa privilegiada a la que el municipio le brinda más de lo que se merece); un asentamiento es una ocupación ilegal de tierras o edificios abandonados con un nivel de pobreza más agudo y construcciones más rudimentarias. A ésto se lo llama "settlement".

trixiemck
Argentina
Local time: 03:43
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 892

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vasiliki Papadimitriou
4 hrs
  -> Gracias, Vasiliki
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