Macondo
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Macondo is a fictional Colombian town described in Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
In the narrative, the town grows from a tiny settlement with almost no contact with outside world, to eventually become a large and thriving place, before a banana plantation is set up, the effects of which lead to Macondo's painfully long downfall, followed by a gigantic windstorm that wipes it from the map.
Inspired by William Faulkner's fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County, Macondo draws from García Márquez's childhood town, Aracataca. Macondo was the name of a banana plantation near Aracataca, and means "banana" in the Bantu language.