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
Alejandra Dorado Alejandra Dorado Alejandra Dorado (born September 24, 1969) is considered to be one of the most important contemporary artists working in Bolivia. Dorado's work—especially her installations and performances—focuses on identity, gender and power relations. It often involves dense layers of meaning and perspectives ranging from the conceptual intellectualization of topics and processes extracted out of everyday life and Latin American and Western society, to the playful yet critical deconstruction of conventions. She was born María Alejandra Dorado Cámara, on September 24, 1969. Dorado is a native of Cochabamba, Bolivia, and majored in Fine Arts, with a minor in painting, at