El Dorado
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
(2): A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
The Land of Gold), a country which Orellana, the lieutenant of Pizzaro, pretended to have discovered in S. America, between the Amazon and Orinoco, and which he represented as abounding in gold and precious gems; now a region of purely imaginary wealth.
