One Hundred Years of Solitude

17 Aurelianos


17 Aurelianos are seventeen illegitimate sons born to seventeen different women. Their father is Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Colonel Aureliano Buendía started 32 revolutions against the conservative regime of Colombia and he fails in all of them. While fighting the war, he has illitcit relations with seventeen women who give birth to seventeen sons.

Summary

Name: 17 Aurelianos 
Father: Colonel Aureliano Buendía
Mother: Seventeen different women
Cause of Death: Shot dead on forehead
Generation: Third Generation

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When Colonel Aureliano Buendia returned from the war, several women started coming to the Buendia house claiming that Colonel Aureliano Buendía is the father of their children. Ursula calmly took one by one seventeen children in the house and baptised them by the same name "Aureliano". Thus they all named Aureliano.