Aracataca

In the paramos area there are many lakes of glacial origin that are the source of rivers like the Guatapurí, Donachuí, Fundación, Aracataca, Frio, Sevilla, Don Diego, Palomino, and Ancho from which rise the low and flat areas surrounding the Sierra.

Santa Marta páramo 2008

His talk bristles with quotations from writers he has ingested, rather as, in his words, the Nobel laureate from Aracataca "hired and fired" Faulkner and Hemingway.

A life in writing: Juan Gabriel Vásquez Interview by Maya Jaggi 2010

My frequent trips to Cartagena, to the lush hazardous forests around Santa Marta, and my pilgrimage to his hometown, Aracataca, support that.

Michael Fairbanks: The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo? 2010

In the southwest it is spread under the alluvial colluvial fan of the Tucurinca, Aracataca, and Fundación Rivers; in the east it borders on the high alluvial terrace of the "Zona Bananera"; and in the north it extends into the Caribbean Sea.

Magdalena-Santa Marta mangroves 2008

Macondo might be Aracataca, but it is also Choroni, it is Chivacoa, it is Caracas when it was a small town, and it is Miraflores which has become a small town inside Caracas where a group of lunatics explore ideological incest.

Cien Años de Soledad 2007

Shakira hails from Barranquilla, a city near his hometown of Aracataca.

Soundtracks: Shakira 2007

Born in the town of Aracataca in northern Colombia in 1928 García Márquez grew up immersed in family stories told and retold by his elders....

Devotionals M-mv 2007

Born in the town of Aracataca in northern Colombia in 1928 García Márquez grew up immersed in family stories told and retold by his elders....

Archive 2007-03-01 M-mv 2007

Chiquita also grew and bought bananas in five municipios in the department of Magdelena: Cordoba, Río Frio, Orihueca, Sevilla, Aracataca.

Chiquita's hundred year history in Colombia Abhay N 2007

The people of Aracataca, the hometown of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, had a vote on whether to change the town's name to Macondo, the name of the town in the nobelist's "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Archive 2006-06-01 Ann Althouse 2006