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
Jorge Dorado Mark Strong, Brian Cox and Taissa Farmiga. Jorge Dorado Jorge Calvo Dorado (born December 8, 1976) is a Spanish director, screenwriter and producer. He received Goya Award nominations for his short film "La guerra", his documentary short "Nuevos tiempos", and his directorial feature film debut "Mindscape". He studied Communication Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He began his career working in as assistant director on films like "Bad Education" and "Talk to Her" by Pedro Almodóvar, "The Devil's Backbone" by Guillermo del Toro and "Moulin Rouge!" by Baz Luhrmann. As director, he has made five short films and a