Editing Macondo (section)

==Fictional history==
The town first appears in García Márquez's [[short story]] "[[Leaf Storm]]".  It is the central location for the subsequent novel ''One Hundred Years of Solitude''.  He later used Macondo as a setting for several other stories.

In ''[[In Evil Hour]]'', published the year before ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', García Márquez mentions Macondo as the town where Father Ángel was succeeded by the one-hundred-year-old Antonio Isabel del Santísimo Sacramento del Altar Castañeda y Montero, a clear reference to the novel to come.

In the narrative of ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', the town grows from a tiny settlement with almost no contact with the outside world, to eventually become a large and thriving place, before a banana plantation is set up.  The establishment of the banana plantation leads to Macondo's downfall, followed by a gigantic windstorm that wipes it from the map. As the town grows and falls, different generations of the Buendía family play important roles, contributing to its development.

The fall of Macondo comes first as a result of a four-year rainfall, which destroyed most of the town's supplies and image. During the years following the rainfall, the town begins to empty, as does the Buendía home.