Setting



The story of the Buendia family is concentrated in their hometown of **Macondo**. Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife Ursula flee their small village after Jose Arcadio gets into a fight with a man named Prudencio and kills him. He leads a party of his family and friends through the rugged countryside and then founds Macondo. An isolated town, the citizens' only contact with the outside world before the war is a troupe of gypsies that travel through their main street every year. As society moves toward modernization, the government sends officials and police to establish authority in the town, but the people of Macondo resist their foreign mandates. Then Liberal revolutions break out and several of Macondo's men leave to join the rebel army, bringing violence and drama back home with them. The town goes through times of war, famine, divine intervention, and then back to isolation.