El Dorado

The Lost City of Gold

Modern Day Bogotá

Architecture of Bogotá

Leguna de Guatavita –Lake Guatavita

The Muisca:

Origin of the Legend?

Chìa

Bachué

Guayacán

Hoya – the Coca Plant

Mocoba – Frailejon

Perdix

Hummingbird

The Vulture

Parrots

Gonzalo Pizzaroc. 1502 – April 10, 1548

Trujillo, Plaza Mayer

Statue of Francisco Pizarro, Brother of Gonzalo Pizarro

Francisco de Orellanac. 1490 - 1546

El DoradoEdgar Allan Poe (1849)

Gaily bedlight,A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,In search of Eldorado

But he grew old – This knight so bold –

And o’er his heart a shadowFell as he found

No spot of groundThat looked like Eldorado

And, as his strength,Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow – “Shadow,” said he,“Where can it be –

This land of Eldorado?”

“Over the MountainsOf the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldy ride,”

The shade replied – “If you seek for Eldorado!”

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