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El Ávila National Park

El Ávila National Park, officially Waraira Repano since 2011, is a Venezuelan national park decreed in 1958 covering over 85,000 ha of the Cordillera de la Costa between Caracas and the Caribbean, rising to Pico Naiguatá at 2,765 m.

El Badi Palace

El Badi Palace (قصر البديع) was the monumental reception palace of Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur in Marrakesh, built from 1578 and demolished under Moulay Ismail.

El Bajío

El Bajío: fertile Lerma-basin region of central Mexico centered on Guanajuato, extending into Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacán, and Querétaro; colonial silver-and-textile engine, cradle of the 1810 revolt, and modern automotive and agro-industrial corridor.

El Beni

El Beni (Beni Department) is a northeastern department of Bolivia in the Amazonian lowlands, capital Trinidad, created 18 November 1842, area 213,564 km², 8 provinces, 19 municipalities.

El Bernardo

El Bernardo is a heroic epic poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, published in Madrid in 1624, narrating the deeds of Bernardo del Carpio at Roncesvalles.

El Bola

El Bola (Pellet) is a 2000 Spanish drama, Achero Mañas's debut, about an abused twelve-year-old, Pablo, befriended by Alfredo. It won four Goyas including Best Film and the 2001 European Film Academy Fassbinder Award.

El Bolero de Bécalá

El Bolero de Bécalá is a 1957 Mexican comedy directed by Juan Bustillo Oro, starring Fernando Soler as a shoeshine man who learns he is the lost son of a well-off family from Bécal, Campeche.

El Bosque Animado

El Bosque Animado is a 1987 Spanish fantasy comedy directed by José Luis Cuerda, written by Rafael Azcona, and starring Alfredo Landa and Fernando Rey.

El Brujo

El Brujo is an archaeological complex in Peru's Chicama Valley, known for the Moche Huaca Cao Viejo temple and the tomb of the Lady of Cao.

El Bulli

El Bulli was a restaurant at Cala Montjoi near Roses in Catalonia, Spain, where chef Ferran Adrià pioneered molecular gastronomy; three Michelin stars, world's best restaurant, closed in 2011.

El caballero

El Caballero (1998) is a standalone tile-laying area-control board game by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich, Hans im Glück, set in Columbus's Antilles; 2-4 players, 7 rounds, scoring after rounds 4 and 7, distinct from El Grande.

El caballero de Olmedo

El caballero de Olmedo (The Knight of Olmedo) is a tragicomedy by Lope de Vega in which the knight don Alonso is murdered by jealous rivals.

El Cabril

El Cabril is Spain's only disposal facility for very low, low, and intermediate level radioactive waste, located in Hornachuelos, Córdoba, and operated by Enresa since 1992.

El Caimán Barbudo

El Caimán Barbudo is a Cuban cultural magazine founded in March 1966 as a supplement of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde, and still published in Havana today.

El Cajón Dam (Mexico)

El Cajón Dam, also known as the Francisco Morazán hydroelectric plant, is a 750 MW dam on the Santiago River in Nayarit, Mexico, built by CFE in 2007.

El Cajon, California

El Cajon, California: a city 15 miles east of San Diego in San Diego County, incorporated November 12, 1912, Charter City since 2012. Population about 102,000 (2025 estimate), 14.4 square miles, fifth largest of the county's 18 cities.

El Callejón de los Milagros

El Callejón de los Milagros (Midaq Alley) is a 1994 Mexican drama by Jorge Fons, scripted by Vicente Leñero, freely adapting Naguib Mahfouz's novel, set in Mexico City, winner of 11 Ariels and a 1996 Goya.

El Camino (The Black Keys album)

El Camino is The Black Keys' seventh studio album, released December 6, 2011 on Nonesuch. Produced with Danger Mouse at Easy Eye Sound, Nashville, its 11 tracks include Lonely Boy and Gold on the Ceiling, winning three 55th annual Grammy Awards.

El Camino Real (California)

El Camino Real, Spanish for "The Royal Road," is the roughly 600-mile historic route in Alta California linking 21 Franciscan missions, four presidios, and three pueblos from San Diego to Sonoma.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a 2019 Netflix crime thriller written and directed by Vince Gilligan, a sequel following Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after the Breaking Bad finale; 2h 2m, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, Emmy-nominated.

El campo

El campo (The Camp) is a two-act play by Argentine playwright Griselda Gambaro, premiered in 1968, that stages a concentration camp through absurdist theater and became a landmark of Latin American absurdism.

El Canijo de Jerez

El Canijo de Jerez is the stage name of Marcos del Ojo Barroso, a Spanish singer-songwriter from Jerez de la Frontera who founded Los Delinqüentes.

El cántaro roto

El cántaro roto is the title of two works: a 1955 poem by Octavio Paz and the Spanish title of Heinrich von Kleist's 1808 comedy Der zerbrochne Krug.

El Capitan

El Capitan is a 3,000-foot (914 m) granite monolith in Yosemite National Park, made of El Capitan Granite. Famous for the Nose (first ascended 1958), the 2015 Dawn Wall free climb, and Honnold's 2017 free solo.

El Capitan Theatre

The El Capitan Theatre, a 1926 Hollywood Boulevard landmark once called Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama, premiered Citizen Kane in 1941, ran as the Paramount, and was restored by Disney in 1991 as its flagship premiere house.

El Carito Oil Field

El Carito Oil Field is a giant oil field in northern Monagas State, northeastern Venezuela, discovered in 1987 as part of the Furrial Trend and operated by PDVSA.

El Carmen Nuevo Leon power station

El Carmen Nuevo Leon power station is an 866-MW natural gas combined cycle plant in El Carmen, Nuevo León, Mexico, opened by Iberdrola in 2019.

El Carnero

El Carnero is a chronicle by Juan Rodríguez Freyle, written between 1636 and 1638, recounting the conquest and first century of Spanish rule in colonial Bogotá.

El Castellar de Berrueco

El Castellar de Berrueco is a small fortified Celtiberian hilltop settlement near the village of El Berrueco, Zaragoza, Spain, overlooking the Laguna de Gallocanta, built in the 2nd century BC and excavated in the 1990s.

El castigo sin venganza

El castigo sin venganza ("Punishment without Revenge") is a tragedy by Lope de Vega about a duke's wife and his illegitimate son, finished in 1631.