In
Mexican urban geography, colonias () are neighborhoods.
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The name of the ''colonia'' must be specified when writing a postal address in Mexican cities. Usually ''colonias'' are assigned a specific postal code
A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or numerical digit, digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, inclu ...
; nonetheless, in recent urban developments, gated communities are also defined as ''colonias'' and share the postal code of adjacent neighborhoods.
Colonias do not have jurisdictional autonomy or representation.
See also
* Barrio
''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city delimited by functional (e.g. residential, comm ...
* Barrios Mágicos
The Barrios Mágicos are twenty-one areas in Mexico City highlighted by the city government to attract tourism; the program is sponsored by the city government and is patterned after the " Pueblos Mágicos" (Magical Towns) program of the Mexican fe ...
* Colonias of Mexico City
In Mexico, the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas are known as Colonia (Mexico), colonias. One theory suggests that the name, which literally means colony, arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when one of the first urban dev ...
References
Subdivisions of Mexico
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