Characters in Cien años de soledad

José Arcadio Buendía

Founder and patriarch of Macondo, consumed by inventions, alchemy and the discoveries the gypsies bring.

Úrsula Iguarán

His wife and cousin, matriarch of the family and the practical force that holds the household together across generations.

Colonel Aureliano Buendía

Their son, who leaves Macondo to lead a long series of failed Liberal uprisings.

Melquíades

The gypsy sage whose prophetic manuscripts frame the family's history.

Remedios the Beauty

A Buendía of the later generations whose beauty unsettles everyone around her.

Pilar Ternera

A fortune-teller entangled with the early Buendía men and with the family line that follows.

Fernanda del Carpio

An outsider who marries into the family and imposes her own rigid order on the household.

Remedios Moscote

Remedios la bella Buendía

Amaranta Buendía

Aureliano Babilonia

José Arcadio Segundo

Aureliano Segundo Buendia

Aureliano José Buendia

Rebeca Buendía

Santa Sofía de la Piedad

Arcadio Buendía

Meme Buendía

Petra Cotes

Pietro Crespi

Melquiades

Gerineldo Márquez

Mauricio Babilonia