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Literature Trivia

Who founded the village of Macondo in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

on Feb 7, 2025

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Jose Aureliano Buendia
Aureliano Segundo Benitez
Jose Arcadio Buendia
Colonel Aureliano Buendia

Jose Arcadio Buendia. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel prize winning novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Jose Arcadio Buendia founded Macondo by a stream.

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