It is a circular lake in what appears to be a meteor crater. However, the origins of the crater are unclear. Barringer Crater Barringer Crater, more-commonly known as Meteor Crater, is a famous impact crater created by a meteorite, located about 35 miles or 55 kilometers east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert (USA). ...
Lake Guatavita was one of the sacred lakes of the Muiscas, where they celebrated a ceremony in which the chief (El Zipa) was covered in gold before bathing in its waters. This is one of the origins of the legend of El Dorado. The Muisca was a South American nation that lived mainly in modern day Cundinamarca and Boyacá highlands. ... El Dorado (Spanish for the gilded one), a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust. ...
B/W. It was the ceremony for the accession of a new Muisca chief on LakeGuatavita 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.
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