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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.

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