Macondo (disambiguation)
Macondo is the a fictional town used by Gabriel García Márquez in his novels, believed to reference his home town of Aracataca in Colombia. It can also refer to:
Geography
- A commune in Malanje Province, Angola, Africa.
- A commune in Moxico Province, Angola, Africa.
Other
- Macondo (film), a 2014 Austrian film
- Macondo Prospect, an offshore oil drilling block within the Mississippi Canyon Area of the Gulf of Mexico, where a disastrous, fatal blowout occurred in April 2010.
- A name adopted for the tree Cavanillesia platanifolia that grows near Aracataca in Colombia.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Peixoto, Aristeu Mendes; de Toledo, Francisco Ferraz (1995). Enciclopédia Agrícola Brasileira: I-M Vol. 4. EdUSP. pp. 346–. ISBN 978-85-314-0719-2. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ↑ "Cavanillesia Platanifolia - EcuRed". EcuRed. 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
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