El Dorado

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title: El Dorado
text: El Dorado is commonly associated with the legend of a gold city, kingdom, or empire purportedly located somewhere in the Americas. Originally, El Hombre Dorado or El Rey Dorado, was the term used by the Spanish in the 16th century to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) or king of the Muisca people, an indigenous people of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of Colombia, who as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged himself in Lake Guatavita. A second location for El Dorado
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description: South American myth
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
date created: 2003-08-29T00:13:49Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T13:34:07Z
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