Calle Sexta
One of the inner streets of Hispanoamérica that bears an ordinal number as its name, the sixth in a series, with no name of its own.
The name says what it is: the sixth. In this part of the Hispanoamérica neighborhood, in the northeast of Chamartín, several inner streets were labeled with ordinal numbers instead of a proper name. Calle Sexta is one of them: a short stretch that kept the number it drew in the series.
Sharing the same setting and the same logic are Calle Primera, Calle Tercera and Calle Cuarta, among others. There is no figure behind it, no anniversary, and the reason why these streets kept their numbering is not documented.
Hispanoamérica was built up mainly from the 1970s onward, and most of its streets bear the names of countries and cities across the Atlantic: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Caracas. Against that roster, these few numbered streets work as the quiet reverse of the neighborhood. Anyone strolling here and reading the plaque finds not a story but a number.