El dorado
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Verified member of the Nations of Saint Joan of Arc (School Community)
El Dorado was founded by Spanish conquistadors who were on a quest for new land. When they reached the shores of South America they found something marvelous. A who castle made of gold towering over the city below. As they began to venture forth and guard stopped them. The conquistadors were immediately disarmed and were taken to the palace before king ElDorado. He was covered in gold and demanded the reason as to why the Spanish were on his land. The Spanish explained how it was a quest to find new land and riches, which they seemed to have found the perfect place for it. ElDorado had heard legends of how the Spanish took over kingdoms and took away freedom from those who called that land home. But ElDorado saw the opportunity to create an alliance with Spain. ElDorado sent the Spanish conquistadors back to Spain with a message. The message sent was “Shasta debent ad Carolum Quintum te ipsum, si vis ad semper legatorum societate consiliorum confugerant.” (Charles V you yourself must come to El Dorado if you ever want a diplomatic alliance.) {{Infobox country
|conventional_long_name = Kingdom of El Dorado
|native_name = Auream
|common_name = El Dorado
|image_flag = Flag of cameroon.svg
|alt_flag = Vertical tricolor (green, red, yellow) with a five-pointed gold star in the center of the red.
|image_coat = Coat of arms of Cameroon.svg
|symbol_type = Coat of arms
|image_map = Cameroon (orthographic projection).svg
|alt_map = Location of El Dorado on the globe.
|national_motto =
"Paix – Travail – Patrie" (French)
"Peace – Work – Fatherland"
|national_anthem =
"{{native phrase|fr|[[Our Land of Gold]Aurum terra nostra]|nolink=yes|italics=off}}"
O Cameroon, Cradle of our Forefathers a
|official_languages =
|demonym = Dorados |ethnic_groups =
- 31% Cameroon Highlanders
- 19% Equatorial Bantu
- 11% Kirdi
- 10% Fulani
- 8% Northwestern Bantu
- 7% Eastern Nigritic
- 13% other African
- <1% non-African
|capital = Gold
|coordinates = Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
|largest_city = Douala
|government_type = Kingdom
|leader_title1 = King
|leader_name1 = Paul Biya
|leader_title2 = Prime Minister
|leader_name2 = Philémon Yang
|legislature = National Assembly
|area_rank = 54th
|area_km2 = 475,442
|area_sq_mi = 183,568
|percent_water = 1.3
|population_estimate = 99,000,000
|population_estimate_rank = 58th
|population_estimate_year = July 2012
|population_census = 17,463,836
|population_census_year = 2005
|population_density_km2 = 39.7
|population_density_sq_mi = 102,8
|population_density_rank = 167th
|GDP_PPP = $47.251 billion
|GDP_PPP_year = 2011
|GDP_PPP_per_capita = $2,257
|GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank =
|GDP_nominal = $25.759 billion
|GDP_nominal_year = 2011
|GDP_nominal_per_capita = $1,230
|sovereignty_type = Independence from France
|established_event1 = Declared
|established_date1 = 1 January 1960
|established_event2 = Annexation of former
British Cameroons
|established_date2 = 1 October 1961
|HDI_year = 2011
|HDI_change = increase
|HDI = 0.482
|HDI_ref =
|HDI_rank = 150th
|Gini_year = 2001
|Gini_change =
|Gini = 44.6
|Gini_ref =
|Gini_rank =
|currency = Central African CFA franc
|currency_code = XAF
|time_zone = WAT
|utc_offset = +1
|time_zone_DST = not observed
|utc_offset_DST = +1
|drives_on = right
|calling_code = +237
|cctld = .cm
|footnote_a = These are the titles as given in the Constitution of the Kingdom of El Dorado, Article X. The French version of the song is sometimes called Chant de Ralliement, as in National Anthems of the World; and the English version "O Cameroon, Cradle of Our Forefathers", as in DeLancey and DeLancey 61.
}}