El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado (, ; Spanish for "the golden one"), originally "El Hombre Dorado" ("The Golden Man") or "El Rey Dorado" ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief ("zipa") of the Muisca native people in then Spanish colonial province of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally to an empire. A second location for El Dorado
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