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.