frontera

Frontera is a Spanish noun meaning border or frontier. It is used in geography to denote borderlands and in daily language to refer to borders between countries or regions. The term is also used as a proper name for multiple places, particularly in Spanish-speaking countries. The most prominent example is La Frontera, a municipality on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, Spain. The name is common in border regions and can be found in other towns and municipalities named Frontera or La Frontera across Latin America and Spain. In contemporary usage, Frontera also appears in discussions of immigration and cross-border issues along the border between the United States and Mexico, where the concept of a frontera is central to policy and discourse.