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	Lake Guatavita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lake Guatavita was the site of the initiation ceremony of Muisca chiefs.
		Numerous attempts were made to drain the lake to reveal the gold.
		The niche in the volcanic rim of the lake is the result of one such attempt by Antonio de Sepulvada in the 1580's.
	www.eremite.demon.co.uk /Tairona/2graphicpages/dguatavita.html (47 words)

	The Legend of El Dorado
		B/W. It was the ceremony for the accession of a new Muisca chief on Lake Guatavita which gave rise to the legend of 'El Dorado' - 'The Gilded Man'.
		Using eight thousand Indian workman, he cut a great notch in the rim of the lake, lowering the water level by 20 metres before the cut collapsed, killing many of the labourers and causing the abandonment of the scheme.
		But when the lake bed was first exposed, it was several feet deep in mud and slime, so that no one could walk on it and the next day, the sun baked the mud to the consistency of cement so hard that it could not be penetrated.
	www.eremite.demon.co.uk /Tairona/1pages/seca/a6eldor.html (1311 words)

	Eldorado -- City of Gold
		They were told of a ritual ceremony that took place at Lake Guatavita, some distance to the North of Bogota.
		The legend supplies the bottom of the lake with unimaginable treasures dumped there by the ancient Muisca to whom the lake was sacred.
		A peculiar ritual on the lake was part of the acknowledgment of a new king.
	www.freewebs.com /tkoseldorado/thelegendofeldorado.htm (799 words)

	Colombian lake drew many gold-seekers (printable version)
		Lake water poured out through the man-made sluice and the level of the lake dropped more than 60 feet.
		Years later, another treasure hunter tried to dig a tunnel under the lake to drain the water, but the attempt failed when the tunnel collapsed, killing most of his workers.
		They declared the lake a national historic site, and decreed that only their own archeologists would be able to take objects from the lake.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=24283 (867 words)

	BOGOTA
		Guatavita Lake is famous because it gave rise to the legend of "El Dorado" that bewitched so many Spanish conquerors.
		According to this legend religious ceremonies were held at the lake, in which the "Cacique", or Indian chief, was covered from head to foot in gold dust and submerged himself in the water as an offering to the gods, while his subjects threw in precious stones and gold objects.
		In 1967 the construction of a dam submerged the old village and a new one, Guatavita La Nueva, was constructed nearby, its architecture imitating Spanish colonial style.
	home1.gte.net /gomezedg/Bogota.htm (2932 words)

	Adventure Associates \| Adventure News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ultimately though, Quesada did uncover the lake of Guatavita after torturing rich Chibcha elders into revealing its location and the supposed source of their wealth.
		Dredging of Guatavita was attempted over the next fifty years, and some treasure was indeed revealed, but nothing like that described in the legend, which was now growing exponentially and being described as a refuge of the fleeing Inca royalty, named Manoa, replete with all their treasure.
		In a final exertion, dredging of Lake Guatavita was again attempted several more times, with mixed results, and it wasn’t until 1965 that the Colombian Government finally halted these vain attempts and put the lake under national protection.
	www.adventureassociates.com /news/2004december/eldorado.html (887 words)

	El Dorado
		The journey to El Dorado has allowed the researchers to confirm all the written accounts and myths surrounding the lost city, including reports that it was a 10-day walk from Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire.
		Palkiewicz said he was most surprised to learn that stories of the city being under a lake were completely accurate.
		According to legend, the treasures of the last Inca rulers were buried under the lake.
	www.wintersteel.com /El_Dorado.html (2591 words)

	El Dorado
		Afterward, he would toss gold into the lake as an offering to the gods.
		An early version of the El Dorado legend placed the city near Lake Guatavita not too far from modern Bogotá, Colombia.
		The story was based on the Muisca people who performed a ceremony similar to that in the legend.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /Dr-Fi/El-Dorado.html (393 words)

	Inca Gold in Volcanic Lake? - History Forum
		I never heard that story, but the lake with gold at the bottom of it resembles the story of El Dorado in Lake Guatavita.
		The conquistadors, although they had managed to loot many hundreds of pounds of gold from the Muisca and their neighbours, were convinced that the best was yet to come.
		The first attempt to dredge the lake was in 1545, but the most serious of the early ventures was that of a merchant from Bogota, Antonio de Sepulveda, who began drainage operations in the 1580s.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5157 (416 words)

	Freefire Zone Forums - El Dorado
		Some indians spoke of a holy lake somewhere in the mountains, a lake that was full of gold.
		The raft was rowed to the middle of the sacred Lake Guatavita.
		The glacial lakes in New Zealand were 1400 feet deep and dozens of miles in length.
	www.freefirezone.net /showthread.php?t=3745 (2625 words)

	IngentaConnect Dynamics of photosynthetic pigments in an Andean lake in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Guatavita Lake is a small, sheltered tropical high mountain lake located in the Colombian Andes, with a closed watershed and a maximum depth of 25 m.
		Physical and chemical data, and photosynthetic pigment concentrations, were measured for the period November 1999–November 2000 at the central vertical axis of Guatavita Lake.
		The relation between the metalimnetic peak of chlorophyll-a and the dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration suggests the growth of the phytoplankton community is limited mainly by the availability of nitrogen.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bsc/lre/2006/00000011/00000001/art00004 (359 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Legend of El Dorado leads to sacred lake 12/13/98
		Indians made pilgrimages to present offerings to the goddess of the lake, and at least once a year the lake became the center of an elaborate ceremony.
		Then he was conducted in a magnificent procession to a raft on the edge of the lake.
		The raft was towed to the middle of the sacred Lake Guatavita.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/121398/fea_floyd.shtml (672 words)

	Parmour : My Quest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Guatavita lake is sacred to the local Muisca people and is tied up in the legend of El Dorado.
		So the conquistadores cut a hole in the side of the mountain hoping to drain the lake and plunder the gold they hoped to find in the bottom.
		Sadly for them the lake is very deep and they were never able to reach the bottom.
	myquest.blogspirit.com /tag/Parmour (720 words)

	Three Serpents (Tunjos) [Muisca] (1979.206.740,1992.92) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lakes were believed to be inhabited by mythical ancestors in the form of snakes that required offerings.
		One well-known ritual during which tunjos were offered to Lake Guatavita, north of Santa Fé de Bogotá, gave rise to the famous legend of "El Dorado" (The Gilded Man).
		One, undertaken at the end of the sixteenth century, cut a great notch into the mountain on one side of the lake in an effort to drain it.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ho/08/sann/hod_1979.206.740,1992.92.htm (294 words)

	Parime - English
		In fact, Pizarro was the first to speak of El Dorado place the Amazonian, in terms of a lake in his letters to the king of Spain.
		Almost a century later, the race for gold management to the small lake Guatavita in Colombia, due to the story of the "Golden Man", which seems to have been only an excuse for the failures in Brazil.
		For researchers who studied it, the lake’s extinction began only about 700 years ago, so that the Spanish conquerors were contemporaries of the process.
	www.portal.netium.com.br /parime/Parime_English.htm (1170 words)

	Muisca Religion \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		Muisca gods were worshiped at the streams, lakes, waterfalls, and mountains of the territory.
		Long ago, a ruler, upon discovering his wife's adulterous liaison with a young warrior, tortured and impaled the man and forced his wife to eat the heart and genitals of her lover.
		Accompanied by nobles and priests, the raft proceeded to the center of the lake, as worshipers along the banks intoned sacred hymns.
	www.bookrags.com /research/muisca-religion-eorl-09 (1269 words)

	Guatavita - Bogotá Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Guatavita: The cradle of the Eldorado myth - Guatavita
		The Guatavita Lake (laguna de la Guatavita) is the cradle of the Eldorado legend.
		If you go to the lake you shouldn't miss the town of Guatavita, which is just like 4 km away.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/South_America/Colombia/Departamento_de_Cundinamarca/Bogota-1579209/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Bogota-Guatavita-BR-1.html (210 words)

	Fredshalom.net Fred Ohebshalom Fred Shalom Alfred Ohebshalom Faramarz Ohebshalom
		Using eight thousand Indian farmarz workmen, he cut a great notch in the rim of the lake through which some of the water ran out, lowering the level by twenty meters before the cut collapsed, killing many of the ohebshalom laborers and causing the abandonment of the scheme.
		From that century to this one, men have invented schemes to drain Lake Guatavita and uncover its riches.
		Although the central zone of the lake remains untouched, many of these teams had partial success and picked up a few more gold items to add to the spoils, until in 1965 the Colombian government brought Guatavita under legal protection as part of the nation's historical and cultural heritage.
	www.fredshalom.net /History.htm (693 words)

	El Dorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		El Dorado (Spanish for 'the golden one') is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.
		The myth began in the 1530s, in the Andes of present-day Colombia, where conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada first found the Muisca, a nation in the modern day Cundinamarca and Boyacá highlands of Colombia, in 1537.
		Other expeditions include that of Philipp von Hutten (1541–1545), who led an exploring party from Coro on the coast of Venezuela; and of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the Governor of El Dorado, who started from Bogotá (1569).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eldorado (1473 words)

	EL DORADO 2
		With Teutonic thoroughness, this was more a 'reconnaissance-in-force' than an fully-equipped entrada, content only to survey the waters of the Golfo, and establish a ranchería with a small garrison on its western shore as a base-camp for future expeditions.
		De Quesada and Federmann did not remain long, however, for there were conflicting stories as to where the golden lake could be found.
		During the dry season of 1545 he organised a bucket-chain of labourers with gourd jars, and in three months' work managed to lower the water level by about three metres - enough to expose the edges of the lake bed, though not its centre.
	www.btinternet.com /~j.pasteur/Dorado2.html (2577 words)

	EL DORADO 5
		The supposed 'Golden Citie of Manoa' and 'Lake Parima' continued to be speculatively drawn on maps of the Guianas by even the foremost cartographers of the ages.
		The notch in the lake wall, cut by de Sepúlveda over two hundred years earlier, was still there.
		He had barely started west when word reached him of a revolt by the unyielding Indians of Áco, the mesa-top pueblo; Juan de Zaldívar, nephew of de Oñate and second-in-command of the entrada-cum-conquísta, and a dozen of his men were killed when they attempted to take food from the unwilling Ácoma.
	www.btinternet.com /~j.pasteur/Dorado5.html (5580 words)

	Timelapse - Links: Lost Lands Eldorado
		The quest for riches beyond the dreams of avarice was not long confined to the shores of Lake Guatavita.
		Round and mysterious, Lake Guatavita is surrounded by desolate hills and is distinguished by the notch Antonio de Sepulveda made in the 1580s when he attempted to drain it.
		The lake was once sacred to the Muisca people who made offerings to the spirit of a former chieftan’s wife, said by legend to live in the depths of the lake in the company of a terrible monster.
	www.barracudanet.com /timelapse/links/eldoradolost.htm (603 words)

	Halifax Hotel
		Also called Guatavita la Nueva, is a new town built from scratch in the late 1960s when the old colonial Guatavita dating from 1542 was flooded by the waters of a hydroelectric reservoir.
		In the surroundings of Guatavita you will find the lake of Guatavita.
		The sacred lake and ritual center of the Muisca Indians.
	www.hotelhalifax.com.co /eng/tourist/around.htm (178 words)

	Galeria Cano: Gold
		This event took place on a specific day of the year on the sacred lake of Guatavita, situated at the highest point of the eastern mountain range which dominates the plain of Bogotá.
		From the shores of the lake great clouds of incense were visible.
		As the chief emerged from the water, the gold washed from his skin, the silence was broken by the sound of music coming from flutes, drums, and clay whistles, while the smoke from bonfires ascended slowly, enveloping the multitude with the fragrance of its resins.
	www.galeriacano.com.co /goldeld.htm (208 words)

	Where the streets were gold! - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Then, the new ruler and his four chiefs throw their piles of gold to the bottom of the lake.
		Lake Guatavita today bears a curious notch in its cliffside, where plunderers attempted to drain the lake to seek the treasures hidden beneath.
		Although gold was found at the bottom of the lake, the Spaniards soon realized that the chances of finding a golden city were slim.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/Oct132006/sesame14133620061012.asp (707 words)

	Chibcha Summary
		This, coupled with a very disciplined, skilled and experienced pool of agricultural labor, was later used by the colonial farmers (encomenderos and haciendados).
		In one of their rituals, the top priest or "cacique" covered his body with gold dust, rode a small boat to the center of Lake Guatavita and submerged himself.
		This ceremony might have been the origin of the myth of "El Dorado", which attracted many Spanish adventurers, who came looking for places where there was plenty of gold, but never existed in reality.
	www.bookrags.com /Chibcha (3061 words)

	Sacred Places of South America
		The borders of Peru and Bolivia meet at Lake Titicaca, and ancient legends say that life on earth began here, on the waters of what is now the highest navigable lake in the world.
		When Earth was dry, Wiraccocha went to Lake Titicaca and created Inti, the Sun and Killa the Moon, as well as the stars, all of which rose from the lake into the heavens.
		Near Lake Titicaca, Aramu Muru founded the underground Monastery of the Seven Rays, where the sun disk was kept.
	www.newagetravel.com /southam.shtml (731 words)

	EmeraldStone :: The Golden Raft
		In the middle of the lake, the artifacts were thrown overboard and the new Zipa would jump in washing off the gold covering his body.
		Some claim it was found in the lake during one of the treasure hunting expeditions.
		Although a number of us grew up right in Bogotá and some of us have even personally trekked up into the mountains to the little crater lake of Guatavita, our historical knowledge of exact chronologies and dates was supplemented by these sources among other family and friends who had information passed down in the generations.
	www.emeraldstone.com /Raft (1209 words)

	Bogotá Tourism > City > Surroundings
		Guatavita lake is located a few kilometers distant from Sesquilé, 3,100 meters elevation.
		Historical reviews indicate that the place was legendary indigenous rituals devoted to King Sun scenario, known El Dorado legend base; lake water color is beautiful blue-greenish.
		The tour around the lake should be guided by a specialized tourist guide.
	english.bogotaturismo.gov.co /city/surroundings/index.php (2338 words)

	The Legend of El Dorado - Traveloscopy Information Portal: Cruise Explore Expedition Travel News
		Ultimately though, Quesada did uncover the lake of Guatavita after torturing rich Chibcha elders into revealing its location and the supposed source of their wealth.
		Dredging of Guatavita was attempted over the next fifty years, and some treasure was indeed revealed, but nothing like that described in the legend, which was now growing exponentially and being described as a refuge of the fleeing Inca royalty, named Manoa, replete with all their treasure.
		In a final exertion, dredging of Lake Guatavita was again attempted several more times, with mixed results, and it wasn’t until 1965 that the Colombian Government finally halted these vain attempts and put the lake under national protection.
	traveloscopy.com /CMS/content/view/121/28 (613 words)

	Brennalin's El Dorado: Lost City of Gold Pages
		The Empire of Guiana was supposed to have a capital city called Manoa, surrounded by mountains on the edge of a salt lake called Parima.
		The legend of the Gilded Man told by the South American natives was of "a religious rite practiced at the sacred lake of Guatavita near Bogota.
		The rite had ceased with the conquest of the Guatavita region by another tribe about 1480, but the legend lived on, transmuted strangely to a distant region far to the east of the Andes".
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/brennalin/eldorado.htm (1841 words)

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