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El Dorado

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El Dorado

Fabled city of gold believed by the 16th-century Spanish and other Europeans to exist somewhere in the area of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers.

The name is derived from the legend of a chief of a land thought to be in modern Colombia, South America, who was ceremonially covered with gold or gold dust, thus becoming el dorado (‘the gilded man’).

El Dorado

Town and administrative headquarters of Union County, south Arkansas; population (2000) 21,500. It is located 16 km/10 mi from the Louisiana state border. Since the discovery of oil in 1921, the town has been the centre of the state's oil industry. It is also a trade and processing centre for lumber, cotton, sweet potato, corn, peanut, and fertilizer producers. A branch (1975) of Southern Arkansas University is in the town.

El Dorado

Town and administrative headquarters of Butler County, southeast Kansas; population (2000) 12,100. It is situated on the Walnut River, 43 km/27 mi northeast of Wichita. It processes and ships grain and livestock. Since oil was discovered nearby in 1915, it has been active in refining and shipping petroleum and manufacturing oil-related products. It is home to the Butler County Community Junior College (1927).



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Could I but succeed in once breaking down the barrier of religious superstition which had kept the red races from this El Dorado it would be a fitting memorial to the immortal virtues of my Princess--I should have again served Barsoom and Dejah Thoris' martyrdom would not have been in vain.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
This was the precious scheme to make your fortune, was it; this was the secret certain source of wealth in which I was to have sunk my money (if I had been the fool you took me for); this was your inexhaustible mine of gold, your El Dorado, eh?
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
And yet he was serious; he was fascinated by Newman's plain prose version of the legend of El Dorado.
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