Between 1535 and 1538, the German conquistadors Georg von Speyer and Nikolaus Federmann searched the Colombian plateaus, Orinoco Basin and Venezuelan lowlands for El Dorado.[9] Subsequently Philipp von Hutten accompanied Von Speyer on a journey (1536–38) in which they reached the headwaters of the Rio Japura, near the equator. In 1541 Hutten led an exploring party of about 150 men, mostly horsemen, from Coro on the coast of Venezuela in search of the Golden City. After several years of wandering, harassed by the natives and weakened by hunger and fever, he crossed the Rio Bermejo, and went on with a small group of around 40 men on horseback into Los Llanos, where they engaged in battle with a large number of Omaguas and Hutten was severely wounded. He led those of his followers who survived back to Coro in 1546.[10]
In 1560 Pedro de Ursúa and Lope de Aguirre searched the Amazon region for El Dorado until Aguirre assassinated Ursúa in 1561.[11]
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