Macondo

Macondo is a fictional town described in Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. 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 wiping it out.

Inspired by William Faulkner's fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County, Macondo draws from by García Márquez's childhood town, Aracataca. Macondo was the name of a banana plantation near Aracataca, and means banana in the Bantu language.