El Dorado, Venezuela El Dorado, Venezuela El Dorado is a small town in eastern Venezuela. It is situated in Bolívar State, on the Cuyuni River. It is the second-largest town in Sifontes Municipality; the capital of the municipality is Tumeremo. It is on the road to Brazil. El Dorado has a small airport . El Dorado was founded in the 1890s. Gold mining was developing in the area, and there was a background of international tension caused by the Essequibo border dispute between Venezuela and Britain. The town has a prison, the "Centro Penitenciario de Oriente El Dorado". The Venezuelan prison system is
USS Dorado (SS-248) book entitled "USS DORADO (SS-248): On Eternal Patrol" was published by Douglas E. Campbell in November 2011. Before she was lost, the American painter Thomas Hart Benton sailed aboard Dorado on its shakedown cruise, using that experience as the basis for his paintings "Score Another for the Subs, In Slumber Deep," and "The Claustrophobic Confines" "Dorado" was only one of only two U.S. Navy submarines lost in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. The other was the USS "R-12" which sank during a training dive near Key West, Florida. USS Dorado (SS-248) USS "Dorado" (SS-248), a "Gato"-class submarine, was