El Dorado Dorado and the initiation rite of the new "zipa", which used to take place in Lake Guatavita. The Spanish captured large amounts of gold from the Muisca, which led them to spread the word that El Dorado was near. After his brother Gonzalo had left for Spain in May 1539, Spanish conquistador Hernán Pérez de Quesada set out a new expedition in September 1540, leaving with 270 Spanish soldiers and countless indigenous porters to explore the Llanos Orientales. One of his main captains on this journey was Baltasar Maldonado. Their expedition was unsuccessful and after reaching Quito, the troops returned
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