Metropole · Culture & Travel
Key Facts
—The spark. Netflix’s acclaimed adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has revived interest in its real-world setting.
—The place. Aracataca, a sleepy town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, is the birthplace that inspired the fictional Macondo.
—The author. Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel laureate Colombians call Gabo, was born there in 1927.








