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What happened to the world's biggest treasure? Early Spanish explorers heard a story about El Dorado. It was a lost city in the Americas, made of gold. The explorers believed it was real--and they believed they could find it! Soon the story became a legend, and the legend changed the world. But the city of El Dorado has not been found...yet.