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
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