El Dorado - Wikipedia
El Dorado (pronounced [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /; Spanish for "the golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado ("The Golden Man") or El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca people, an indigenous people of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite ...