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Aracataca
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Nickname(s): 
Cataca
Location of the town and municipality of Aracataca in the Department of Magdalena.
Location of the town and municipality of Aracataca in the Department of Magdalena.
Country Colombia
Region Caribbean
Department Magdalena
Foundation 1885
Area
 • Total 1,755 km2 (678 sq mi)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total 51,975
Time zone UTC-5
Website
www.aracataca-magdalena.gov.co
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Aracataca is a city in Magdalena, Columbia. The city is known for being the birthplace of Gabriel García Márquez.


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  • Aracataca train station

    Aracataca train station, one of the literary settings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez´s novel.

  • Casa natal de Gabriel García Márquez (SAM 5602)

    Gabriel García Márquez's Birthplace Museum

  • Garcia Marquez Wall in Aracataca

    García Márquez Wall

  • Aracataca1

    Billboard of Gabriel García Márquez in Aracataca. The billboard reads: "I feel I am an American from every country, without never renouncing to the nostalgia for my land, to which I returned one day and discovered that between the reality and nostalgia was the Feedstock for my work". - Gabriel García Márquez

  • El rio Aracataca

    Riverlife

  • Schoolkids in Aracataca

    Schoolkids

  • Freemason lodge Aracataca

    Freemason lodge

  • Oilpalmmagdalenacolombia

    Oil palm plantations in the municipality of Aracataca

  • African palm tree forest in Aracataca

    African palmtree forest, from which palm oil is being won

  • Aracataca-hr 13

    The house of the Telegrafist

  • Aracatacatrain

    Aracataca railway

  • Train station of Aracataca by night

    Train passing by the station

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