EL DORADO (DISAMBIGUATION)

'El Dorado' is a mythical city of gold.
'El Dorado' or 'Eldorado' may also refer to:

Contents

Places

Literature and art

Music

Other

El Dorado in popular culture

See also

Places

In 'Argentina':

★ Eldorado, Misiones

★ Eldorado Department
In 'Australia':

★ Eldorado, Victoria, an old gold-mining ghost town
In 'Brazil':

★ Eldorado, São Paulo
In 'Mexico':

★ El Dorado, Sinaloa
In 'Peru':

★ El Dorado Province, San Martín Region
In the 'United States':

★ El Dorado, Arkansas

★ El Dorado, California

★ El Dorado County, California

★ Eldorado, Illinois

★ El Dorado, Kansas

★ Eldorado, Maryland

★ Eldorado Township, Minnesota

★ Eldorado, Ohio

★ Eldorado, Oklahoma

★ Eldorado, Texas

★ Eldorado, Wisconsin

★ Eldorado Canyon State Park

★ Eldorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico

Literature and art

★ "Eldorado" (poem), a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

★ ''El Dorado'' (film), a 1966 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan

★ ''Eldorado'' (TV series), a BBC soap opera

★ El Dorado, a fictional superhero in ''Super Friends''

★ Elderado Dingbatti, a character from the ''Coping With...'' series of books by Peter Corey

★ ''El Dorado'', part of the ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' series by Baroness Orczy

★ El Dorado, as a vision of Voltaire's utopia, in a few chapters of ''Candide''

★ El Dorado, the name of the road race in the 1969 film ''The Love Bug''

★ El Dorado Prison, a prison in El Dorado, Venezuela, made famous by the 1970 book ''Papillon''

Music

★ ''Eldorado'' (Electric Light Orchestra album) (1974)

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★ "Eldorado" (song), the title track from the album

★ ''Eldorado'' (EP) (1989), by Neil Young and The Restless

★ ''El Dorado'' (1994), an album by the Colombian rock band Aterciopelados

★ ''Eldorado'' (2007), Stephan Eicher album

Other

★ Cadillac Eldorado, an automobile

★ El Dorado Rum, a brand of Guyana rum

★ El Dorado Wrestling, a Japanese wrestling promotion

★ El Dorado (football), a period of Colombian football

★ The Eldorado, a co-op apartment building in New York City

★ Eldorado Casino, a casino in Henderson, Nevada

★ Eldorado Mine in Port Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada

★ El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia

★ El Dorado Middle School of Concord, California

★ Eldorado High School (Albuquerque) of Albuquerque, New Mexico

El Dorado in popular culture

★ Eldorado is the main airport of Bogotá, Colombia

★ El Dorado is the aim of two young Spanish men in the 2000 Dreamworks SKG film: The Road to El Dorado.

★ El Patron mentions El Dorado in the novel The House of the Scorpion. However, the El Dorado he was talking about was the mythical king, not the city of gold.

★ Eldorado is the name of a Cadillac.

★ El Dorado was the name of a "SuperFriends" superhero. He appeared as a regular on . He even appeared in a sketch on Robot Chicken.
"Aguirre, the Wrath of God", is a fictionalized account of Lope de Aguirre's search for El Dorado.
El Dorado has also been depicted in two Walt Disney comics, ''The Gilded Man'' from 1952 by Carl Barks and ''The Last Lord of Eldorado'' from 1997 by Don Rosa.
The 1980s Japanese/French animated childrens series ''The Mysterious Cities of Gold'', portrayed a search for seven hidden cities where fabulous fortunes had been amassed, although similar these were based on the "Seven Cities of Gold" legend.
In the videogame GUN Colton White has to find a city similar to El Dorado
In August of 2006, the French author Laurent Gaudé published his eponymously named book. "Eldorado" symbols the allure of life in Europe as viewed by characters in the book who are victims of human trafficking whilst trying to leave their poverty-ravaged countries.
El Dorado Gate was a serialized RPG for the Sega Dreamcast released by Capcom.
In the PS3 videogame , the plot revolves around the lead character acquiring a map and subsequently setting off to find the lost treasures of El Dorado.
The band Electric Light Orchestra has an album titled Eldorado. The Colombian rock group Aterciopelados also released an album called Eldorado in the mid-nineties.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem ("Eldorado")about the journey of a knight in search for the fabled Eldorado, wherein the futility of the search is highlighted by a mysterious stranger who advises the knight thus: "Over the Mountains/Of the Moon,/Down the Valley of the Shadow,/Ride, boldly ride,"/The shade replied—/"If you seek for Eldorado!"
The novel Legend by David Lynn Goleman deals with the search for El Dorado by the Event Group featured in Goleman's alien conspiracy novel Event
The legend of El Dorado was inspiration for the story of the Skypiea arc in the popular anime/manga series One Piece.

See also

★ City of Gold (disambiguation)

★ Helldorado, a reference to Tombstone, Arizona