El Dorado (disambiguation)

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El Dorado (sometimes spelled Eldorado) is a mythical city of gold (sometimes called the "Lost City of Gold").

Contents 1 Places 2 Literature and art 3 Other 4 See also

El Dorado may also refer to:

[edit] Places

• Argentina
  • Eldorado, Misiones in Misiones Province
  • Eldorado Department
• Australia
  • Eldorado, Victoria, an old gold-mining ghost town
• Brazil
  • Eldorado, São Paulo
  • Eldorado (Mato Grosso do Sul)
• Canada
  • Eldorado, Saskatchewan
  • Eldorado, Ontario
  • Eldorado Mine in Port Radium, Northwest Territories
• Colombia
  • El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá
• Peru
  • El Dorado Province, San Martín Region
• Spain
  • Santander, "El Dorado" Bar located in central Santander. A well-known watering hole that many students from abroad frequent.
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • El Dorado, Trinidad and Tobago
• United States
  • El Dorado, Arkansas
  • Eldorado, Illinois
  • El Dorado, Kansas
  • Eldorado, Maryland
  • Eldorado, Ohio
  • Eldorado, Oklahoma
  • Eldorado, Texas
  • Eldorado, Wisconsin
  • Eldorado Township, Minnesota
  • El Dorado, California
  • El Dorado Hills, California
  • El Dorado County, California
  • Eldorado Springs, Colorado
  • El Dorado Springs, Missouri
  • Eldorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Eldorado High School of Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • El Dorado Middle School of Concord, California
• Venezuela
  • El Dorado Prison in southeastern Bolívar State
• Zimbabwe
  • Eldorado, Zimbabwe

[edit] Literature and art

• "El Dorado", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, written in 1849.
• El Dorado, a novel by Baroness Orczy, part of the The Scarlet Pimpernel series.
• El Dorado, a 1966 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan, set in Old West-era Eldorado, Texas.
• El Dorado Prison, a notorious prison in eastern Venezuela, made famous by the 1970 book Papillon.
• Eldorado, a concept album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).
  • Eldorado, the title track from that album.
• El Dorado, an album by the Latin rock band Aterciopelados.
• Eldorado, a BBC soap opera.
• The Road to El Dorado, an animated film by Dreamworks SKG, made in 2000.
• El Dorado, a fictional superhero in Super Friends, an animated television series.
• Elderado Dingbatti, a character from the Coping With... series of books by Peter Corey
• El Dorado, as a vision of Voltaire's utopia, in a few chapters of Candide.
• El Dorado, the name of the road race in the 1969 film The Love Bug.
• Eldorado, an EP by Neil Young and The Restless.
  • "Eldorado", the name of a song from that EP.

[edit] Other

• The El Dorado is a co-op apartment located at 300 Central Park West in New York City.
• Eldorado Casino, a casino in Henderson, Nevada.
• Cadillac Eldorado, an automobile manufactured by Cadillac between 1953 and 2003
• El Dorado Rum, a brand of Guyana rum
• Eldorado 8, a cinema complex in Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia
• El Dorado Wrestling, a Japanese wrestling promotion
• El Dorado Cigarettes is a product in the popular animated television series Family Guy
• El Dorado, band - Rock 'n' Roll band from Slavonski Brod, Croatia

[edit] See also

• Helldorado, a reference to Tombstone, Arizona