Is this rumor true? or just some old made up story?

Question

i have heard that theres a lost city of gold called el dorado is that true or some legend please explain properly please

Answer 1

wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado

Basically, YES! there was an el dorado.

We know that there was a "city of gold"

However due to the many non-credible sources over the hundreds of years that re-told the story.

We now can not separate fact from legend.

What we know.

There was a city of gold.

It did exist.

What we don't know.

Was the city made of gold? probably not.

Was it called el dorado? probably not.

Will we ever find it? Yep. We will.

Answer 2

Sorry, its only a legend.  It started with some tribes in the 1530's in South America.  Back in 1541, Fransico de Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro, two spanish conquistadors, believed the story was true and went out to find it.  They didn't find it, but in the process they were the first to navigate the Amazon river.

Answer 3

The Lost City of Gold was called El Dorado but it is only a legend !!!

Answer 4

One source of the legend was in the Amazon. A lost explorer turned up and said he'd seen a fabulous golden city deep in the jungle.

Also, when Coronado was exploring the US southwest, one of the tribes he visited had a prisoner from the modern day Kansas area. This prisoner told Coronado (through who knows how many interpreters) that in his homeland the houses were made of gold. You can guess what Coronado did; he took the guy and headed for Kansas. All he found was mud huts with grass roofs, which did look a little golden at a distance.

Answer 5

"He (Coronado) was the conqueror and Governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, a province of New Spain located northwest of Mexico and comprising the contemporary Mexican states of Jalisco, Sinaloa and Nayarit). In 1539, he dispatched Friar Marcos de Niza and Estevanico, a survivor of the Narváez expedition, on an expedition north from Compostela towards New Mexico. When Marcos de Niza returned, he told about a city of vast wealth, a golden city called Cíbola, and that Estevanico had been killed by the Zuni citizens of Cíbola. Though he did not claim to have entered the city of Cíbola, he reported that the city stood on a high hill, that it was made of gold, and that he could see the Pacific Ocean off to the west."

Nobody has ever found the City of Gold so it is probably just a legend.