Maybe Columbia...................Romancing the Stone..........who knows for sure..........i am just basing stuff off of what i read.....
This Muisca raft figure is on display in
the Gold Museum, Bogotá, ColombiaEl
Dorado (pronounced:
[el
doˈɾaðo], English /ˌɛl dəˈrɑːdoʊ/; Spanish for "the
golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado (the golden man), El Indio
Dorado (the golden Indian),
or El Rey Dorado (the golden king), is the term used by Europeans to
describe a mythical tribal chief
(zipa) of the Muisca native people 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 an empire.
A
second location for El Dorado was inferred from rumors, which inspired several
unsuccessful expeditions in the late 1500s in search of a city called Manõa on
the shores of Lake Parime. The most
famous of these expeditions were led by Sir Walter Raleigh.
In pursuit of the legend, Spanish conquistadors and
numerous others searched Colombia, Venezuela, and parts of Guyana and northern
Brazil for the city and its fabulous king. In the course of these explorations,
much of northern South America, including the Amazon River, was mapped.
By the beginning of the 19th century most people dismissed the existence of the
city as a myth.
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