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Macondo () is a fictional town described in Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (as well as several others of his works). It is the hometown of the Buendía family.

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Macondo () is a fictional town described in Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (as well as several others of his works). It is the hometown of the Buendía family.

==Aracataca== Macondo is often supposed to draw from García Márquez's childhood town, Aracataca, near the north (Caribbean) coast of Colombia, 80 km south of Santa Marta.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macondo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.