The phrase "a barrio of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a neighborhood or district, particularly in a context related to Hispanic or Latino culture.
Example: "He grew up in a barrio of Los Angeles, where the vibrant culture shaped his identity."
Alternatives: "a neighborhood of" or "a district of".
Almodóvar's movies, proudly sophomoric and raunchy, were part of a boisterous artistic and musical movement called La Movida, which was taking hold in Madrid, much of it in Malasaña, a barrio of run-down warehouses and dingy clubs.
The place to stroll on a sunny Sunday is San Telmo, a barrio of narrow cobblestone streets full of tango clubs, cafes and inexpensive barbecue restaurants known as pa rrillas.
Produced by Lost Enterprises, back then an underground surfing-products company, the video gave the impression that San Clemente, the site of the "Western White House" during the Nixon administration, had become little more than a barrio of talented, drunken surfers.
Many of the farmers living on the threatened western slopes of the volcano have optional government-built housing at La Paz (a barrio of Pelileo) and Rio Blanco (east of Baños) and in Penipe town, where they and their families can spend the night.
Jesuit missions in northern Mexico and the southwestern US region often included a barrio of Tlaxcaltec soldiers who remained to guard the mission.
She was born in a barrio of Santiago, and lived in poverty throughout her life, working as a seamstress from an early age.
Mr. Blades sang about lovers and gangsters, going back to his groundbreaking "Pedro Navaja," a barrio update of "Mack the Knife," and including two songs from his 1999 album with Editus, "Tiempos" (Sony Discos).
November 4: Fugitive Iguala mayor Jose Luís Abarca and his wife María de los Angeles Pineda are arrested in a run-down house in a poor barrio of Mexico City.
His encounters with the owner of a market stall in Delhi, who sells him a dud iPhone, and with some streetwise kids in a hillside barrio of Medellín, leave one wondering what the lessons are for the informal cities that are prevalent in parts of South America, Africa, and Asia.
Maradona's family had escaped the countryside for a hard barrio of Buenos Aires.
With respect to the elimination of W. bancrofti transmission in an urban barrio of the Dominican Republic, Noland and others performed a transmission assessment survey (TAS) of 6- to 7-year-old children living in an area where annual MDA with diethylcarbamazine plus albedazole was given in 2004, 2005, and 2007, with population coverage ranging from 67%to92%2%.
