Amaranta Ursula is the younger daughter of Jose Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda. Aureliano Segundo her father is very keen to send her to foreign schools for a good education. She leaves for Brussels to study with the help of her father. She finishes her studies there and marries Gaston. She decides to come back home after sometime.
When Amaranta comes back home Jose Arcadio her brother was already dead. The house was in ruins, she doesn't like it and says "it's obvious that there's no woman in this house." She take care of the house like her great great grand-mother Ursula did. She restored the house back to perfection. She scattered the ants, fixed the doors and windows, filled the cracks in the floor and uprooted weeds from the garden.
Name: Amaranta Ursula
Father: Aureliano Segundo
Mother: Fernanda del Carpio
Cause of Death: Postpartum hemorrhage
Lover: Aureliano Babilonia
Spouse: Gaston
Generation: Fifth
Children: Aureliano
Resembles: Ursula, Amaranta
Amaranta Ursula's father Aureliano Segundo had a deep desire that her daugher be educated at the best place in the world. He sent her to Brussels in Europe. There she met Gaston when he was doing a maneouver in airplane. The fell in love and married.
Return to MacondoAfter finishing her education in Belgium, Amaranta Ursula marries with Gaston and returns to Macondo. Her father Aureliano Segundo sends her off to Belgium to avoid the her fate being the same as Renata Remedios Meme. But the return to Macondo from Belgium is something again takes the readers into the magical realm. Why would anyone want to return to the town which has so much antagonism towards a peaceful life. There is something that attracts people of the Buendia family to doom them and no one seems to escape the plan of this magical village.
Relationship with Aureliano BabiloniaAureliano (Babilonia) is Amaranta Ursula's sister's (Renata Remedios Meme's) son with Mauricio Babilonia. Fernanda did not accept Aureliano as her grandson and got angry with Meme's relationship with Mauricio Babilonia, she sent her away and denied her grandson to move out of the house. When Amaranta Ursula returned, she found him alone in the house and meanwhile living with him alone she developed affection for him and Aureliano also fostered love for Amaranta Ursula, much like in the past with Amaranta and Aureliano Jose. They made love numerous times which resulted in Amaranta Ursula pregnancy. Aureliano Jose wanted the child and named his son Aureliano on his birth, though the child did not survive. Aurelion the last member of Buendia household was born with the pig's tale, so the ancient fear of the Buendia Family (see Ursula's Fear) comes to a reality.
DeathAmaranta Ursula dies after giving birth to her son, due to Postpartum hemorrhage. She gives birth to a child with a tail of pig. She seems happy but Aureliano and the nurse could not get to stop the bleeding after the birth and in this way she dies. Aureliano becomes man after her death and leaves his son alone in basket which Amaranta made for her child, and ants eat his son to death.