El Dorado

The El Dorado district appears to mimic Las Vegas, while Monte Visto looks a lot like the gated communities in the Palm Springs area of California.

We might not need the level of detail on Hudson’s novel Green Mansions, for example, or the blow-by-blow account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s efforts to find El Dorado in southern Guyana.

However, strong Santa Ana winds from the east intensified the Bobcat and El Dorado fires in the San Gabriel mountain range east of the Los Angeles metro area, and ground crews put out the call for more Air Attack help.

In one image, a crouched woman in a dark alley drinks from a bottle marked “El Dorado,” while boxes burn nearby.

The one that gets me the most is the El Dorado Chemical Plant.

And yet for his new book, The Lost City of Z, Grann marched off into the Amazon jungle to search for a fabled El Dorado.

May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the lake Parima and the El Dorado?

The term ‘El Dorado’ has come to be a synonym in the outside world for a sort of earthly paradise, has it not?

To conquer that El Dorado had been Balboa's cherished dream.

But how often is it true that the seeker after El Dorado searches for one thing and finds another.

The costly myth of El Dorado, from the earliest days of its conception, was insatiable in the matter of human lives.