El Dorado
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El Dorado is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The legend originated in 16th-century Spanish accounts of a ruler known as el Dorado, or the Golden One, who was sai
Lake Guatavita in the Cundiboyacan Plateau, which inspired the legend of El Dorado according to the Muisca Golden ceremony
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
A Muisca tunjo
The Muisca raft
Muisca
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The Muisca were a pre-Columbian culture and colonial communities of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, whose customs lasted up to the beginning of the 19th c
El Dorado
…lake. Over time, the name came to refer not only to the ruler, but also to a lost city or kingdom of immense wealth. The legend is associated with the Muisca, an Indigenous people who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in present-day Colombia. Later accounts linked the story to the installation ceremony…
View of the Eastern Ranges of the Andean natural region Lake Tota is clearly visible
Petroglyphs of El Abra (~11,000 BCE)
A Muiscan ceramic figure, 600–1600 AD