>El Dorado is an ancient indigenous legend from the time of the colonization of the Americas and attracted many European adventurers. The legend spoke of a city made entirely of solid, pure gold, and of many other treasures within its borders. The legend arose after the conquistadors learned of the Golden Ceremony of the Indians that took place on the Cundiboyacense plateau in Colombia, where the chief or Zipa of a Muisca tribe was bathed in gold dust and his subjects threw a gold offering into Lake Guatavita. Some of the recovered gold pieces are now in the Gold Museum of BogotáThis explains why Chel looks more like a Culombiana/Congolombiana than a Mexican.
Btw Why did most Columbian Natives live in mountainous lands?
>>18128143it was better for agriculture for various reasons
>>18128143https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_archipelago
>>18128143not just Columbia, this pattern of settlement followed throughout the andes. They developed agricultural methods for the mountains that made living there way better than in the lowlands where there is much more disease and much less natural protection.
>>18128143the lowlands were tropical rainforest shitholes. the mountains were closer to "traditional" temperate climates where most other civilizations developed
