Minor Characters
Don Apolinar Moscote
The conservative, corrupt mayor of Macondo and father of Remedios Moscote.
Father Nicanor Reyna
The first priest of the Catholic church in Macondo.
Bruno Crespi
The brother of Pietro Crespi who runs the store when Pietro Crespi takes charge of the music school.
Gerineldo Márquez
Friend of Colonel Aureliano Buendía. He also becomes a colonel and courts Amaranta, growing a lovely friendship with her, though she declines his proposal of marriage.
Magnífico Visbal
Friend of Colonel Aureliano Buendía. He is stabbed to death in the same tent at Colonel Aureliano Buendía without his knowing.
Amparo Moscote
Another daughter of Don Apolinar Moscote.
Visitacíon
A Guajiro woman who helps in the Buendía household. She arrives in Macondo trying to escape a plague of insomnia in her tribe.
Father Coronel
The new priest who replaces Father Nicanor Reyna at the Catholic church. A veteran.
Mr. Herbert
A hot air balloonist who is the first gringo to try a banana and scouts out the location for the plantation.
Mr. Jack Brown
The owner of the banana plantation.
Aureliano José
The child born to Colonel Aureliano Buendía and Pilar Ternera. He falls in love with his aunt Amaranta, though they never consummate their love. He dies still dreaming of his aunt.
Aureliano Triste
One of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s seventeen illegitimate sons. He establishes the ice factory that was originally imagined by José Arcadio Buendía. He also brings in the first train to Macondo.
Aureliano Centeno
One of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s seventeen illegitimate sons. He invents sherbet.
Aureliano Amador
One of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s illegitimate seventeen sons. He is the last to be killed.
Arcadio
The son of José Arcadio (I) and Pilar Ternera. He and Amaranta are close to the same age, despite being aunt and nephew, and so they grow up together. Arcadio is deemed the cruelest ruler of Macondo, making up unreasonable laws at his slightest whims.
Father Antonio Isabel
The next in the line of Catholic priests, after Father Coronel.
Petra Cotes
The mistress of Aureliano Segundo, after she sleeps with José Arcadio Segundo. Fernanda del Carpio’s rival. She is mixed race. Her presence causes animals to experience extreme fertility.
Camila Sagastume
A music teacher known as “The Elephant” who challenges Aureliano Segundo to an eating competition.
Father Ángel
The Catholic priest that follows Father Antonio Isabel.
Catalonian Bookseller
The owner of the store that carries the books Aureliano needs to learn Sanskrit and more. He introduces Aureliano to his four intellectual friends.
Mauricio Babilonia
The auto mechanic who fathers Aureliano with Meme. When he goes to meet Meme in her bathroom, he is shot and paralyzed by a guard’s bullet.
Gastón
The Belgian husband of Amaranta Úrsula, who keeps him on a leash. While away trying to set up an airmail business in Brussels, he learns of Amaranta Úrsula’s affair with Aureliano and separates from her amicably.
Nigromanta
A prostitute to whom Aureliano loses his virginity.
Gabriel Márquez
The closest friend of Aureliano and great-great-grandson of Colonel Gerineldo Márquez. He is the only one who remembers the history that Aureliano knows to be true.