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El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...
La Leyenda del Dorado Laguna de Guatavita (1966) The site of El Abra , dated at 12,400 years BP, one of the oldest human evidences in South America Gonzalo Correal Urrego ( Gachalá , Colombia , 23 October 1939) is a Colombian anthropologist , palaeontologist and archaeologist . [ 1 ]
The legend says the lake is where the Muisca celebrated a ritual in which the zipa (named "El Dorado" by the conquistadors) was covered in gold dust, and then, venturing out into the water on a ceremonial raft made of rushes, dove into the waters, washing off the gold. Afterward, trinkets, jewelry, and other precious offerings were thrown into ...
José Rumazo González (Latacunga, August 28, 1904 - February 26, 1995) was an Ecuadorian writer, philosopher, and historian.. He is the author of the celebrated poem "Parusia", an epic poem that he began writing in 1956 and consists of 5,600 pages in 7 volumes; it contains close to 240,000 verses, which makes it one of the longest epic poems in human history; it is longer than the Mahabharata ...
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.
In 1926, professor Paulino Rodríguez published Gotas del estío, which included a brief work titled La caja de Cofresí. [109] A story written by Juan B. Huyke for his book Cuentos y leyendas was selected by the Puerto Rico Department of Public Instruction for Secretos y Maravillas , which was used in public schools. [ 108 ]
In 2001, the Italian archaeologist Mario Polia discovered the report of the missionary Andres Lopez in the archives of the Jesuits in Rome. [1] In the document, which dates from about 1600, Lopez describes a large city rich in gold, silver, and jewels, located in the middle of the tropical jungle called Paititi by the natives.
El libro del gofio, ethnography. Historia de Tenerife (History of Tenerife), History. Historia de Gran Canaria (History of Gran Canaria), History.*El corazón de La Gomera (The Heart of La Gomera), book. La leyenda del Garajonay (Garajonay's Legend), Children's Fantasy. La emigración canaria a Cuba (The Canarian Emigration to Cuba), film and ...