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The legendary king of El Dorado being anointed with gold dust by his attendants. 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 ...
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 ]
Bogotá: Banco de la República. Pérez Riaño, Pablo Fernando (2021). La Encomienda de Chita, 1550–1650. Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Historia. In English. Arciniegas, Germán (1942). The Knight of El Dorado: The Tale of Don Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and His Conquest of New Granada, Now Called Colombia. New York: The Viking Press.
The Muisca raft (Balsa Muisca in Spanish), sometimes referred to as the Golden Raft of El Dorado, is a pre-Columbian votive piece created by the Muisca, an indigenous people of Colombia in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.
Lake Guatavita (Spanish: Laguna Guatavita) is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé in the Almeidas Province, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, 57 km (35 mi) northeast of Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. The lake is circular and has a surface area of 19.8 hectares (49 acres).
El Dorado, the man or city made of gold, that was not so mythical but a main motive for the Spanish to conquer Colombia. The ritual is represented in the Muisca raft , a piece of gold working found in Pasca almost 400 years after the arrival of the Spanish
Piedras del Tunjo (Spanish for "Tunjo Rocks") is an important archaeological park established on a natural rock shelter 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Bogotá in the municipality of Facatativá. Description
An example of the interaction of the art of nature and the famous goldworking of the Muisca is the precious golden sea snail in the collection of the Museo del Oro in Bogotá The flat Bogotá savanna, the southern territory of the Muisca Confederation, not only provided fertile agricultural lands, but also many different clays for the production of ceramics, rock shelters where petroglyphs and ...