Pohl, Macondo

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Macondo: -meaning:

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez' central location for the subsequent novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. He has since used Macondo as a setting for several other stories.

Given the town's association with magical realism, many Latin Americans would portray the everyday illogical or absurd news and situations they or their respective countries face as more aptly belonging to Macondo. As a result, some Latin Americans occasionally refer to their home towns or countries as Macondos.

2. Macondo Prospect is the name of an offshore drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico where a disastrous blowout occurred on 20 April 2010. See Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion.