Aracataca Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Colombian municipality of the department of Magdalena
About Aracataca
Imagine 200 years ago, walking all around the tropical Colombian swamp and forests searching for a way towards the sea, to be free of corrupt civilizations and to start your own. To discover a river and a beautiful and fertile land. Tired of traveling you decide that this is the place where you want to settle and raise a family. This happened to Jose Arcadio Buendía and his wife Ursula in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece100 Years of Solitudewhen those free souls with their friends founded Macondo, the imaginary town that "does not exist". The early 21st century, the whole world has changed, Colombia became a melting pot for many of the world’s peoples, and amidst the oldest cities of the continent and the most astonishing nature in the world, Macondo’s entrance is still invisible for
Aracataca Travel Guide Sections
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