El Dorado or governor of Guatavita: There is also an account, titled "The Quest of El Dorado", by poet-priest and historian of the Conquest Juan de Castellanos, who had served under Jiménez de Quesada in his campaign against the Muisca, written in the mid-16th century but not published until 1850: According to Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557): He went about all covered with powdered gold, as casually as if it were powdered salt. For it seemed to him that to wear any other finery was less beautiful, and that to put on ornaments or arms made of gold worked by
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