El Dorado County, California along with the population since the 1960 Winter Olympics, hosted at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in neighboring Placer County. The present-day site of El Dorado County was once home to the Maidu, Washoe, and Miwok Native American tribes, and is notable for being the site of the 1848 gold discovery that sparked the California Gold Rush. The County of El Dorado was one of California's original 27 counties created effective February 18, 1850 (the number has risen to 58 today). Its name is derived from the Spanish meaning "the gilded/golden". The final segments of the Pony Express mail route ran
El Dorado (Shakira album) the country for 50,000 copies sold. It also debuted at number 92 in Australia and at number 54 in the United Kingdom, becoming her first Spanish album to chart in the former and her highest charting Spanish album in both countries. "El Dorado" also debuted atop the albums chart in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It entered the Spanish albums chart at number 2, at number 3 in Switzerland, at number 4 in France, at number 10 in Austria, at number 12 in Italy, at number 19 in Germany, at number 32 in Finland, and at number 20 in