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El Castillo, Chichen Itza
El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Kukulkan, is the largest temple-pyramid at the Maya site of Chichen Itza in Yucatán, Mexico, built in phases from around 750 AD.
El Cazador
El Cazador (Spanish, "the hunter") is a traditional hunt board game from La Palma, Canary Islands: one hunter versus twelve birds on a 5x5 line board, hunter captures by jumping, birds win by blocking. Documented by Espinel Cejas and González García (1994) and modeled in the Ludii database (DLP.Games.1554).
El Celler de Can Roca
El Celler de Can Roca is a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers beside their parents' restaurant. It was named the world's best restaurant in 2013 and 2015.
El Centro, California
El Centro is the county seat and largest city of Imperial County, California, located in the Imperial Valley near the Mexican border and incorporated in 1908.
El Cerrito
El Cerrito, also called Pirámide del Pueblito, is an INAH archaeological zone in Corregidora, Querétaro, Mexico, 7 km southwest of Querétaro city, with a 30 m pyramid occupied from 300 BC to the 17th century, peaking under Toltec influence 900–1200 AD.
El Cerrito Oeste Oil and Gas Field
El Cerrito Oeste is a gas field in the Austral Basin of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, producing gas from the tight Magallanes Inferior sandstone and oil from the Springhill formation.
El Cerrito, California
El Cerrito is a Contra Costa County, California city in the East Bay, incorporated August 20, 1917 from the town of Rust; population about 26,000, council-manager government, two BART stations.
El Chaco Biosphere Reserve
El Chaco Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera del Chaco), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Paraguay's Gran Chaco, declared 2001 and designated 2005; spans four ecoregions, six core protected areas, and Ayoreo and Guaraní lands, under heavy deforestation pressure.
El Chanal
El Chanal: largest Postclassic (c. AD 1100-1450) archaeological site in the Colima valley, Mexico, on both banks of the Río Verde; known for Tláloc and Ehécatl carved stair reliefs, metallurgy, Plumbate trade, and Tula links.
El Chapo (TV series)
El Chapo (Univision/Netflix, 2017–2018) is a Spanish-language drama series in three seasons about Joaquín Guzmán Loera, created by Silvana Aguirre Zegarra and Carlos Contreras, starring Marco de la O, filmed in Colombia, covering 1985 to the 2017 extradition.
El Chapulín Colorado
El Chapulín Colorado (The Red Grasshopper), created by Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños), is a comedic Mexican superhero parody series: sketch debut 1970, own sitcom 1973–1979, 256 episodes, iconic red costume, chipote chillón, and catchphrase "No contaban con mi astucia".
El Charco de Bristol
El Charco de Bristol (Charca de Brístol) is a small 100 m coastal lagoon and salt marsh in Corralejo, La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands; the island's only Sarcocornia perennis site, an IBA wading-bird wetland, and a dog-friendly beach.
El Chavo del Ocho
El Chavo del Ocho (also El Chavo del 8, Chaves in Brazil): Mexican sitcom created by and starring Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito), first aired 20 June 1971 on Canal 8, about an eight-year-old orphan living in a vecindad; over 300 episodes, dubbed into 50+ languages.
El Chema
El Chema is a 2016–2017 Telemundo/Argos crime superserie and spin-off of El Señor de los Cielos, created by Luis Zelkowicz, starring Mauricio Ochmann as drug boss José María Venegas; 85 episodes, IMDb 6.8, TMDB 7.7.
El Chocón Dam
El Chocón Dam (Presa El Chocón) is an earthfill dam and 1,200 MW hydroelectric plant on the Limay River in northern Patagonia, Argentina, opened in 1972.
El Cid
El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, c. 1048–1099), also el Campeador, Castilian warrior and lord of Valencia; subject of the Cantar de mio Cid, Spain's great medieval epic.
El Cid (2020 TV series)
El Cid (The Legend of El Cid) is a Spanish Amazon Prime Video historical drama (2020-2021) by Zebra Producciones, created by José Velasco and Luis Arranz, starring Jaime Lorente as Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar; two seasons of five episodes, cancelled after season 2.
El Cid (film)
El Cid (1961) is Anthony Mann's 184-minute epic starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, produced by Samuel Bronston in Spain, adapted from the Poema del Mío Cid, with three Oscar nominations and a 1993 restoration.
El Cielo Biosphere Reserve
El Cielo Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera El Cielo), a UNESCO MAB site in Tamaulipas, Mexico, designated 1986, protecting the northernmost Mexican cloud forest, 269,253 ha, six wild felids, and headwaters of the Guayalejo, Sabinas, and Frío rivers.
El Clásico
El Clásico: any football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, first played 13 May 1902. 264 all-time meetings, 192 in La Liga (80 Madrid, 77 Barça, 35 draws); a fixture entwined with Spanish politics and Catalan identity.
El clon
El clon is a 2010 Spanish-language telenovela. It is a remake of O Clone (2001), which details the forbidden love between Jade and Lucas, complicated by cloning.
El Cojo Ilustrado
El Cojo Ilustrado was a Venezuelan illustrated cultural magazine published fortnightly in Caracas from 1892 to 1915, a principal vehicle for Modernism in Latin America.
El Colegio de México
El Colegio de México, known as Colmex, is a public research university in Mexico City founded in 1940, focused on the social sciences and humanities.
El Conde
El Conde is an archaeological zone in Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico: a Late Postclassic tecpan, or noble palace platform (about 62 x 39 m, built 1430-1521), of the Tepaneca señorío, federally protected since 2001 and named after Manuel Conde.
El condenado por desconfiado
El condenado por desconfiado, also known as El mayor desconfiado, is a Spanish Golden Age theological drama published in 1635 and traditionally attributed to Tirso de Molina.
El Cóndor Pasa (song)
"El Cóndor Pasa" is the famous melody from the 1913 Peruvian zarzuela by Daniel Alomía Robles and Julio Baudouin, premiered at Lima's Teatro Mazzi, later recorded by Simon & Garfunkel in 1970 and declared Peruvian national heritage in 2004.
El Consuelo
El Consuelo, or Tamohí, a Huastec archaeological zone in Tamuín, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, on the Río Tampaón; 210 hectares, built two to three centuries before the Spanish conquest, home of the sculpture El adolescente huasteco.
El Coporo
El Cóporo is a Mesoamerican archaeological zone in Ocampo, Guanajuato, Mexico, on the ancient northern frontier of Mesoamerica; a Tunal Grande Tradition hilltop center with adobe architecture, a summit ceremonial complex, and petroglyphs.
El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés, also known as Grupo El Corte Inglés, is a Spanish department-store group founded in 1940, with hypermarkets, travel, insurance, and finance businesses.
El crimen de la guerra
El crimen de la guerra is an unfinished pacifist essay by Juan Bautista Alberdi, written in 1870 and published posthumously in 1895, arguing that war is the crime of sovereigns.