Aracataca

Aracataca on the map of Magdalena

Aracataca is a 1885 founded place in Colombia, located in the department of Magdalena in the same Aracataca River. Aracataca has 35,520 inhabitants (as of 2005).

Internationally, he is mainly characterized known that there Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was born and his hometown probably served as a template for the Macondo site in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. On 25 June 2006, a referendum was held in Aracataca to the question whether the place in Aracataca - Macondo should be renamed. However, the referendum failed due to insufficient voter turnout.