Nou Barris is one of the ten districts

Districts of Barcelona

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain proper is presently divided into 10 districts. These are administrated by a councillor designated by the main city council, and each of them have some powers relating to issues such as urbanism or infrastructure in their area. The current division of the city into...

 into which Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 has been officially divided since 1984. The name refers to the original nine neighbourhoods it was composed of, even though nowadays it's made up of fourteen. It covers up an extension of 8,04 km².

It is located in the northern part of the city adjacent to two other districts of Barcelona: Sant Andreu

Sant Andreu

Sant Andreu is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been divided up since 1984. It was named after a former municipality in the plain of Barcelona called Sant Andreu de Palomar, the largest in the area, which makes up nowadays the bulk of a neighbourhood bearing the same name...

 and Horta-Guinardó

Horta-Guinardó

Horta-Guinardó is the name of one of the districts of Barcelona, located in its North-Eastern corner. It is named after two very heterogeneous areas of the city, Horta and el Guinardó, which together cover a large area of 11.92 km², which sums up for the 11,9% of the total extension of the...

 and grew up extensively out of small urbanised areas near the former municipalities of Sant Joan d'Horta and Sant Andreu de Palomar

Sant Andreu de Palomar

Sant Andreu de Palomar is a neighborhood in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona, Catalonia . It was the main core of the former municipality of Sant Andreu de Palomar that more or less coincides with what is now the district of Sant Andreu....

 (now neighbourhoods of Barcelona) in the 20th century, especially from the 1950s on. The district council is located in a former mental institution, the Institut Mental de la Santa Creu.

Neighbourhoods

It is further divided into these neighbourhoods:

• Can Peguera
  Can Peguera
  Can Peguera is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• Canyelles
  Canyelles, Barcelona
  Canyelles is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• Ciutat Meridiana
  Ciutat Meridiana
  Ciutat Meridiana is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• La Guineueta
• Porta
  Porta, Barcelona
  Porta is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• La Prosperitat
  La Prosperitat
  La Prosperitat is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• Les Roquetes
• Torre Baró
  Torre Baró
  Torre Baró is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• La Trinitat Nova
• El Turó de la Peira
• Vallbona
  Vallbona, Barcelona
  Vallbona is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• Verdum
  Verdum
  Verdum is a neighborhood in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, Catalonia ....
  
  
• Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta

Demographics

In 1998 it had 168,837 inhabitants, having lost over 20,000 people from a population peak in 1991. It's the district of Barcelona with the largest Roma people community. In 2005 the population went down again, with 164.981 inhabitants. Since 2000 it's become one of the areas of the city with the strongest presence of immigrants, especially from Romania

Romania

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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 and Ecuador

Ecuador

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, and has been largely rehabilitated by the city council. Its density is 20.520 hab./km².

External links

• Nou Barris at the city council site