El Dorado (disambiguation)
Appearance
El Dorado (sometimes spelled Eldorado) is a mythical city of gold (sometimes called the "Lost City of Gold").
El Dorado may also refer to:
Places
- Argentina
- Australia
- Eldorado, Victoria, an old gold-mining ghost town
- Brazil
- Canada
- Eldorado, Saskatchewan
- Eldorado, Ontario
- Eldorado Mine in Port Radium, Northwest Territories
- Colombia
- El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá
- Ireland
- 19 El Dorado in Milford Grande, Limerick
- Mexico
- Peru
- El Dorado Province, San Martín Region
- El Dorado beach, Ancash Region
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
- El Dorado, Arkansas
- Eldorado, Illinois
- El Dorado, Kansas
- Eldorado, Maryland
- Eldorado, Ohio
- Eldorado, Oklahoma
- Eldorado, Texas
- Eldorado, Wisconsin
- Eldorado Township, Minnesota
- El Dorado, California
- El Dorado Hills, California
- El Dorado County, California
- Eldorado Springs, Colorado
- Eldorado Canyon State Park
- El Dorado Springs, Missouri
- Eldorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Eldorado High School of Albuquerque, New Mexico
- El Dorado Middle School of Concord, California
- Venezuela
- El Dorado Prison in southeastern Bolívar State
- Zimbabwe
Literature and art
- "Eldorado (poem)", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, written in 1849.
- El Dorado, a novel by Baroness Orczy, part of the The Scarlet Pimpernel series.
- El Dorado (film), a 1966 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan, set in Old West-era Eldorado, Texas.
- El Dorado Prison, a notorious prison in eastern Venezuela, made famous by the 1970 book Papillon.
- Eldorado (TV series), a BBC soap opera.
- The Road to El Dorado, an animated film by Dreamworks SKG, made in 2000.
- Gold & Glory: The Road to El Dorado, the computer adventure game of the animated film.
- El Dorado, a fictional superhero in Super Friends, an animated television series.
- Elderado Dingbatti, a character from the Coping With... series of books by Peter Corey
- El Dorado, as a vision of Voltaire's utopia, in a few chapters of Candide.
- El Dorado, the name of the road race in the 1969 film The Love Bug.
Music
- Eldorado (album), a concept album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).
- Eldorado (song), the title track from that album.
- El Dorado, an album by the Latin rock band Aterciopelados.
- Eldorado, an EP by Neil Young and The Restless.
- "Eldorado", the name of a song from that EP.
Other
- The Eldorado is a co-op apartment building in the Art Deco style, located at 300 Central Park West in New York City.
- Eldorado Casino, a casino in Henderson, Nevada.
- Cadillac Eldorado, an automobile manufactured by Cadillac between 1953 and 2003
- El Dorado Rum, a brand of Guyana rum
- Eldorado 8, a cinema complex in Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia
- El Dorado Wrestling, a Japanese wrestling promotion
- El Dorado Cigarettes is a product in the popular animated television series Family Guy
- El Dorado, band, a Rock 'n' Roll band from Slavonski Brod, Croatia
- Eldorado Gate, a seven volume RPG released by Capcom for Sega's Dreamcast video game system
- El Dorado (football), a period of Colombian football (soccer) in the 1940s and '50s
See also
- Helldorado, a reference to Tombstone, Arizona
- City of Gold