Comala
Comala is a municipality in the
Mexican state of
Colima. It stands at 19° 18' N latitude and 103° 37 W longitude.
The municipality reported 19,384 inhabitants in the
2000 census.Comala is a very small city and its famous because of its white houses, and for the
Juan Rulfo's novel
Pedro Paramo, in which the sad town of Comala is described as a "pueblo de fantasmas" because of its dead inhabitants who wander the town as if it were their purgatory.Comala is also famous for its "botaneros", pubs where people go to have a drink and receive free "botanas"(snacks), usually with live music.
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Comala is a municipality in the Mexican state of Colima. It stands at 19° 18' N latitude and 103° 37 W longitude.
The municipality reported 19,384 inhabitants in the 2000 census.Comala is a very small city and its famous because of its white houses. Comala is also famous for its "botaneros", pubs where people go to have a drink and receive free "botanas"(snacks), usually with live music.
Comala is also famous because it shares the name of the town in which the great Mexican author Juan Rulfo sets his famous work "Pedro Paramo." The Comala of Rulfo's novel is described as a "pueblo de fantasmas" because of its dead inhabitants who wander the town as if it were their purgatory. however, the Comala of Rulfo's novel bears no connection at all with the Comala of Colima, the only thing they share is, by happenstance, the name. The influence for Rulfo's hellish Comala were the towns he grew up in in his native southeast Jalisco, the towns of San Gabriel, Tuxcacuesco, Sayula, Apulco, etc.
