3-056-848 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

City of Manoa, 1599. 'Manoa o del Dorado'. An illustration of a walled city beside a lake, with people engaged in transporting goods in carts up and down a steep slope to the lake front where ships are moored. El Dorado, was believed to be a king who covered his entire body with gold dust and who resided in a fabulously wealthy city known as Manoa. Raleigh described Manoa as being on an island in a lake called Parimá, in Guiana. It was not until two centuries later that this story proved to be untrue, when the lake's existence was disproved. From an account of Sir Walter Raleigh's search for El Dorado.