word of the day: pobla

The word of the day is pobla

Not entirely sure, but I'm guessing it's short for either

población: feminine noun 1. town, city (ciudad); village (pueblo) 2. population (personas, animales)  3. settlement, populating (acción de poblar) (spanishdict.com) or poblado: noun 1. Town, village, or place inhabited (habitado). (m) (spanishdict.com)

"Within a month, a couple of thousand more infections were reported.  It didn't rip through the pobla like the dengues or the poxes.  More of a slow leprous spread."

 - Junot Díaz, "Monstro", 4 & 11 June 2012 The New Yorker