Riohacha, The Pearl, the Phoenix, the not-so cosmopolitan city…oops According to Wikipedia, Riohacha is one of the oldest cities in South America with a long history of building, destruction and reconstruction, due to different reasons, natural disasters, war, whatever those reasons were, the truth is that the city is considered to be a phoenix. Well, phoenix or not, I read that this land of fishermen was the inspiration to our best writer, Gabriel García Marquez and that, by itself, is a must to find an excuse to go and visit. And now when you think about it, reread his most famous books and little by little, its landscapes and magic descriptions will start making sense, One Hundred Years of Solitude, or Love in Times of Cholera. In fact, he mentions the city in his latest book
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