History

Who searched for El Dorado?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/searched-el-dorado-147145.html" >Who searched for El Dorado?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orellana set out in quest for it, the latter drifting down the length of the Amazon River in the process. From the middle of the 16th cent. a series of adventurers searched for El Dorado and its fabulous variantsÑOmagua, the Land of Cinnamon, or the golden land of Manoa. El Dorado passed into European literature and found its way to the maps. The conquistadors of Venezuela and New GranadaÑ Federmann , Benalc‡zar , and JimŽnez de Quesada Ñall searched for El Dorado.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about El Dorado . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Was El Dorado much searched for? What conquistadors searched for El Dorado? Who are some of the conquistadors who searched for El Dorado? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Among the gilded paupers.(Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South...
Magazine article from: The Nation ...the location of the mysterious El Dorado eluded them, taunted them...the all-consuming search for El Dorado, if at first quixotic, became...identical. The people who had searched for El Dorado had been right all along," writes...
Road to El Dorado.
Magazine article from: Kidsworld Magazine ...lives -- and the future of El Dorado -- the two con men keep their...native girl. The real legend of El Dorado goes back to the 16th century...including Sir Walter Raleigh, searched for it in vain. El Dorado, which means "gilded man...
El Dorado Nuevo in Colombia.(oil rush and indigenous people; includes related...
Magazine article from: Earth Island Journal ...rejuvenating his monarchy. The story of "El Hombre Dorado" became the myth of El Dorado, the kingdom of gold, luring the conquistadors of the early 16th century into Colombia. They searched the mountains and jungles for gold, bringing...
Telly: Must see TV.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) Horizon (BBC2, 9pm) For almost 500 years, explorers and soldiers of fortune searched in vain for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. This documentary examines evidence to suggest that it may really have existed. Judge John Deed...
Unspeakable horror of Jaycee's nightmare
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph ...were born and brought up. El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar...being held with his wife in the El Dorado county jail. The undersheriff...off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.