Aracataca
Aracataca ranks 16,766th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Padang, Fawsley, and East Haddon. Memorable people born in Aracataca include Gabriel García Márquez. Aracataca has been the birth place of many writers. Aracataca is located in Colombia.
Aracataca is a town and municipality located in the Department of Magdalena, in Colombia's Caribbean Region. Aracataca is a river town founded in 1885. The town stands beside a small river of the same name, the Aracataca river, that flows from the nearby Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range into the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, a lagoon of the Caribbean Sea. Aracataca is 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of the Department capital Santa Marta. The town is best known as the birthplace of Nobel literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez. Read more on Wikipedia
People
In 1927, Aracataca was the birth place of 1 globally memorable people, including Gabriel García Márquez.
People Born in Aracataca
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Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Aracataca were writers (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, writers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Aracataca, including Gabriel García Márquez. Whereas, throughout history, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Aracataca, including Gabriel García Márquez.
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Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Aracataca since 1700.
