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En los siglos XVI y XVII, los europeos creían que en algún lugar del Nuevo Mundo existía un lugar de inmensas riquezas conocido como El Dorado. La búsqueda de este tesoro costó innumerables vidas, llevó al menos a un hombre al suicidio y puso a otro bajo el hacha del verdugo.
31 de mar. de 2022 · According to the World History Encyclopedia, the story relates to the chief of a Muisca tribe who inhabited a large plateau – the conquistadors knew it as Cundinamarca — high in the eastern...
14 de ene. de 2013 · This scene of a man covered in gold going out into a sacred lake, such as Lake Guatavita, is the real story of El Dorado. The Muisca Raft is on display at the Gold Museum in Bogota. The way...
8 de nov. de 2023 · Learn about the origins and history of the El Dorado myth, a quest for a city of gold in South America. Discover how the legend influenced explorers, conquerors, and writers, and what evidence supports or challenges it.
In 1560, Basque conquistadors Pedro de Ursúa and Lope de Aguirre journeyed down the Marañón and Amazon Rivers, in search of El Dorado, with 300 Spaniards and hundreds of natives; the actual goal of Ursúa was to send idle veterans from the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire away, to keep them from trouble-making, using the El Dorado myth as ...
15 de ene. de 2013 · El mito europeo sobre una ciudad perdida de oro que estaba ahí para ser descubierta por un conquistador aventurero encapsula la sed insaciable de los europeos por el metal dorado y el deseo...
1 de abr. de 2014 · El Dorado ('Gilded Man' or 'Golden One') referred to the legendary kings of the Muisca people who populated the northern Andes of modern-day Colombia from 600 to 1600. The name derives from the coronation ritual when the new king was covered in gold dust before he leapt into Lake Guatavita.
