It has the proper name Macondo, after the mythical village of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad).
[11][12] The star has an apparent visual magnitude of 8.30,[2] which is too faint to be visible to the naked eye.
[2] This is a K-type main-sequence star that has been assigned a stellar classification of K2IV-V[4] or K3V,[5][6] depending on the study.
It is smaller and less massive than the Sun, with a higher metallicity, or abundance of elements heavier than helium.
[6] The planet was given the name Melquíades by the IAU after a character in the book One Hundred Years of Solitude.