He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

Andy invented a job to keep him busy, sending him ahead to El Dorado to supervise last minute arrangements.

El Dorado was surrounded by a mob.

Bonner explained that, with the nightclub's cooperation, the police had occupied El Dorado like a battlefield.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Avianca Boeing 767-200ER parked at the El Dorado Terminal

Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport handles 350 million metric tons of cargo and 8 million passengers a year, making it the largest airport in Latin America in terms of cargo and the third largest in passenger numbers.

This old Muisca tradition became the origin of the El Dorado legend.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.

In 1967 Hawks made El Dorado, starring Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan.

* 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.

* 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as " Robin Hood of El Dorado ", is killed.

Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).

* ( 1991 ) El Dorado

* Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for El Dorado ( 1998 )

On 14 April 1986, the United States carried out Operation El Dorado Canyon against Gaddafi and members of his regime.

Some cities which are considered lost are ( or may be ) places of legend such as the Arthurian Camelot, Russian Kitezh, Lyonesse, Ys, the Seven Cities of Gold, Shambhala, El Dorado, and Atlantis.

In the animated television series The Mysterious Cities of Gold, which chronicles the adventures of a Spanish boy and his companions traveling throughout South America in 1532 to seek the lost city of El Dorado, a woman called " Marinche " becomes a dangerous adversary.

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.

In 1530 Antonio Sedeño was granted a contract to settle Trinidad and Tobago, with an eye toward discovering El Dorado and controlling the trade in slaves.

The Loss of El Dorado, Andre Deutsch, London.

Sedalia, Missouri, all the way south to El Dorado Springs, Missouri, is blanketed with ground burst nuclear weapons.

* April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region

** Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London in order to conduct a second, ill-fated expedition in search of El Dorado in South America.

Category: History of El Dorado County, California

The largest growth in the county has come in El Dorado Hills where the population grew by 24, 092 residents to a total of 42, 108 since 2000.

Arlington Boulevard, a major north-south thoroughfare traversing the Berkeley and El Cerrito portions of the Berkeley Hills, runs through the center of the community and terminates at its north end.

El Dorado Hills ( EDH ) is an unincorporated census-designated place ( CDP ) located in El Dorado County, California, east of the state capital of Sacramento.

El Dorado Hills residents and businesses are most closely affiliated with El Dorado County, a generally rural area.

El Dorado Hills is recognized nationally for its high median household income, ranking 77th in CNN Money Magazine's best places to live in 2007.

El Dorado Hills was settled as part of the Sierra Nevada Goldfields.

The town of Mormon Island, first settled in 1848 and now submerged under Folsom Lake, bordered the northwest area of El Dorado Hills.

The center of modern El Dorado Hills lies about 13 miles from the 1848 gold discovery site in Coloma, where the California Gold Rush began.

The South Fork of the American River washed gold downstream, into areas now in El Dorado Hills and Folsom, but farming and ranching superseded the Gold Rush.

Portions of two Pony Express routes in this area from 1860-1861 remain as modern El Dorado Hills roads.

The modern history of El Dorado Hills dates back to the early 1960s when original developer Alan Lindsey began its development as a master planned community.

El Dorado Hills was envisioned as a large-scale master-planned community that would be completely planned from its inception as a group of residential " villages ".

This growth consisted primarily of residential housing, as retail developments were limited to two shopping centers on the corners Green Valley & Francisco and El Dorado Hills Blvd.

The original villages of El Dorado Hills include Park, Ridgeview, Saint Andrews, Crown, Governors, Stonegate, Franciscan, Marina, and Lake Hills Estates.

Additional villages that have developed subsequently include Fairchild, Sterlingshire, Highland Hills, Highland View, Bridlewood, Hills of El Dorado, Woodridge, Laural Oaks and the master-planned community of Serrano.

By the 1990 census, El Dorado Hills had an estimated population of 6, 395 residents.

Businesses, particularly those interested in escaping the high costs of Silicon Valley began to set up operations in the El Dorado Hills Business Park south of Highway 50.

In 1995, the Parker Development Company acquired along the eastern boundary of El Dorado Hills to create Serrano, one of the largest master planned communities in Northern California.

El Dorado Hills ( EDH ), as defined by the 2010 Census Designated Place ( CDP ), is at the western border of El Dorado County, between the City of Folsom and the unincorporated community of Cameron Park.