The legend began in the 1530s, in the Andes, where conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada first found the Muisca, a nation
in the modern day Colombia, in 1537.
The story of the Muisca rituals was brought to Quito
by Sebastian de Belalcazar’s men; mixed with other
rumors, there arose the legend of 'El Dorado'
(meaning the Golden Man rather than a place
Imagined as a place, El Dorado became a kingdom,
Deluded by a similar legend,
Gonzalo Pizarro would depart from Quito in a
famous and disastrous expedition towards the Amazon
Basin; as a result of this, however, Orellana became
the first person to navigate the Fender Guitar!!!