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Summary Of: El Dorado

El Dorado became a kingdom... the Spanish began to hear stories of El Dorado from captured Indians... El Dorado is applied to a legendary story in which precious stones were found in fabulous abundance... The concept of El Dorado underwent several transformations... The resulting El Dorado enticed European explorers for two centuries... The most famous journey in search for El Dorado was undertaken by... described El Dorado as a city on... El Dorado is also referenced in... El Dorado is also sometimes used as a metaphor to represent an ultimate prize or... El Dorado bears similarity to other myths such as the... El Dorado appears in the... is about an expedition to the city of El Dorado by two Spanish bandits... El Dorado was greatly intertwined with the plot of the 2007 film... The legend of El Dorado and Francisco Orellana...

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