Ciénaga Grande
The great lagoon fills much of the western side of the map. Its shoreline, broken by channels and mangrove edges, reads beautifully in black and white.
Minimalist map poster · Colombia
11.0070° N / 74.2476° W
A Caribbean town on the edge of a vast coastal lagoon, its orderly grid of blocks facing both sea and wetland.

One city, five moods
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The map
Ciénaga lies on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, in Magdalena Department, at the north-eastern edge of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, a huge system of coastal lagoons. The town is laid out as a regular grid of blocks. The sea lies close on one side and the wetlands open to the west, so many of its streets end abruptly at water.
The town is remembered for the 1928 strike of banana workers that ended in a massacre near the railway station, an event later echoed in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Its old centre keeps buildings from the republican era. Roads lead from here to Santa Marta and, across a narrow strip between lagoon and sea, toward Barranquilla.
On a Ciénaga map poster the grid is crisp and orderly, and the lagoon and its channels spread out as loose, organic forms. The contrast between the measured town and the open marshland makes a striking composition, especially in monochrome, where water and land separate cleanly and every shoreline is drawn with a single clear line.
The great lagoon fills much of the western side of the map. Its shoreline, broken by channels and mangrove edges, reads beautifully in black and white.
The town's regular blocks run in neat rows toward the coast, a calm geometric contrast to the irregular wetlands around them.
The route toward Barranquilla crosses a thin strip of land between lagoon and sea, a narrow line with water on both sides.
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Why Ciénaga
Ciénaga carries a weight of memory, in history and in literature, and for families from the Magdalena coast it is simply home. A map of its grid and lagoon is a quiet way to keep that place present.
Add a title in Spanish or English, a meaningful date or a family name in the subtitle, and your own coordinates line. Choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand, depending on how light or dark you want the water to look.
Order the Ciénaga poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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It is printed on premium 200 gsm matte paper in one of six sizes, from 30 × 40 cm to 24 × 36″. Printed posters start at $39, shipping included.
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