Sucre is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department

Sucre Department

Sucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, and it has a population of 772,010, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia...

, northern Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

. Is located in the Subregion of the Mojana with the Munacipalities of Majagual

Majagual

Majagual is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department, northern Colombia.-References:...

  and Guranda

Guaranda

San Pedro de Guaranda is a city in central Ecuador. It is the capital of Bolívar, a province located in the Andes mountains. The city has is connected by road with other hubs including, Riobamba, Babahoyo and Ambato....

 which conforms part of the so-called Moposine depression, a geographical area characterized by being under sea-level and therefore prone to flooding.

Sucre was home of famous writer Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

 and one of his most known novels Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981...

is based on real life events occurred in the town.

External links

Gobernacion de Sucre - Sucre Sucre official website