El Dorado
El Dorado (sometimes spelled Eldorado, especially in foreign languages) is the name of a mythical country of gold which was supposedly in South America.
El Dorado is also the name of several places North America named after the mythical El Dorado:
- Argentina
- Eldorado, Misiones (Misiones Province)
- Eldorado Department
- Brazil
- Eldorado, São Paulo
- Eldorado, Mato Grosso do Sul
- Canada
- Eldorado, Saskatchewan
- United States
El Dorado is also the title of several works of fiction:
- A poem by Edgar Allan Poe, written in 1849.
- El Dorado is the name of a 1966 movie starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan, set in Old West-era Eldorado, Texas.
- Eldorado is a concept album by Electric Light Orchestra
- Eldorado is a BBC soap opera.
- The Road to El Dorado is an animated film by Dreamworks SKG.
Other uses of the name:
- El Dorado is a notorious prison in eastern Venezuela, made famous by Papillon (book).
- Eldorado was an automobile manufactured by Cadillac between 1953 and 2003.
- There is a brand of Guyana rum named El Dorado.
- El Dorado is also the name of a fictional superhero who was a member of the Super Friends, an animated television series.