The Spaniards didn't find El Dorado, but they did find Lake Guatavita and tried to drain it in 1545. They lowered its level enough to find hundreds of pieces of gold along the lake's edge.

El Dorado, the land of gold, is one of the most well-known myths in history and has many different origin stories. ... Lake Guatavita was drained in search of gold. (Image credit: ...

The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek to South America, but it was all wishful thinking. The golden one was actually not a place but a person, as ...

The original Guatavita, the El Dorado village, no longer exists. Like the emeralds and gold tithed to Chie, the native site today lies at the bottom of a lake: the Tominé Reservoir, ...

El Dorado has popped up in other 'treasure hunting' stories. OBX is not the first show to reference El Dorado. ... the king was covered in gold dust and jumped into the sacred Lake Guatavita.

A new exhibition, "Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia," at the British Museum in London, reveals the unique role of the precious metal in pre-Hispanic society.

What is El Dorado? To understand the origins of the legend, we need to go back to the time of the first Spanish expeditions to the northern part of South America.The explorers were struck by the ...