el dorado

     

Originally this legendary place name referred to a ruler near Bogota who dusted his body with gold

Trivia about el dorado

  • In 2000 DreamWorks released "The Road to" this golden city that enticed many explorers
  • In the 1540s German adventurer Philipp Von Hutten searched South America for this fabled city
  • Running out of supplies while up the Orinoco, Raleigh called off the search for this fabled land
  • Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founded Bogota between 2 trips to find this mythical golden city
  • In the 1500s many Spanish explorers went to South America searching for this legendary gold kingdom
  • Marshall Gold Discovery State Hist. Park is in this county that shares its name with a legendary city of gold
  • Voltaire's "Candide" mentions the story of this fabled city of gold whose name means "The Gilded"
  • Spanish conquistadors long sought this mythical city of gold in the Americas
  • Sir Walter Raleigh was among those who searched for this city of gold, looking in the area of what's now Guyana
  • A fabled lost city of gold lends its name to this California county
  • A legendary city, or a legendary Cadillac model that was discontinued in 2002
  • You know who I really like? Me! Howard Hawks remade his own "Rio Bravo" as this golden Western just 8 years later

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