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El Crimen Perfecto

El Crimen Perfecto, released as Crimen ferpecto and internationally as Ferpect Crime, is a 2004 Spanish-Italian black comedy directed by Álex de la Iglesia about department-store salesmen.

El Criticón

El Criticón is an allegorical-philosophical novel by the Spanish Jesuit writer Baltasar Gracián, published in three parts between 1651 and 1657 and regarded as his masterpiece.

El Dabaa nuclear power plant

The El Dabaa nuclear power plant (محطة الضبعة النووية) is Egypt's first nuclear power plant, under construction on the Mediterranean coast by Rosatom with four VVER-1200 reactors of 4,800 MWe total.

El Daein

El Daein (الضعين, Ed Daein, Ad-Du'ayn) is a city in western Sudan, capital of East Darfur state since 2012, a rail and groundnut-livestock trade hub, RSF-held since November 2023.

El David Aguilar

El David Aguilar (Rodolfo David Aguilar Dorantes) is a Mexican singer-songwriter from Culiacán, Sinaloa, with eight studio albums and co-writes for Natalia Lafourcade and Jorge Drexler.

El DeBarge

El DeBarge (Eldra DeBarge, born 1961) is an American R&B singer-songwriter with a signature falsetto, lead singer of the Motown family group DeBarge ('All This Love,' 'Rhythm of the Night') and a solo gold-album artist ('Who's Johnny,' 1986) who returned with the Grammy-nominated Second Chance in 2010.

El Descanso Coal Mine

El Descanso Coal Mine (Mina El Descanso) is an open-pit thermal coal mine in the department of Cesar, Colombia, owned and operated by Drummond Ltd. since 2009.

El desdén, con el desdén

El desdén, con el desdén is a Spanish Golden Age comedy by Agustín Moreto, first published in Madrid in 1654, where count Carlos wins the disdainful Diana by feigning disdain.

El Dibir

El Dibir (Ел Дибир) is a populated place in Somalia's Bari region at 11.767 N, 51.217 E; GeoNames lists 200,000 residents, though other sources report far fewer. Distinct from same-named wells and wadis in Sanaag, Sool, and Bari.

El Djouf

El Djouf, also written El Juf (Arabic for "belly"), is a hyper-arid dune and rock-salt desert in northeastern Mauritania and northwestern Mali, on the Sahara's western edge.

El Dorado

El Dorado, "the gilded one", began as the Muisca gold-dust investiture ritual at Lake Guatavita, Colombia, then grew into the European legend of a golden city, Manoa, driving failed sixteenth-century expeditions.

El Dorado (1966 film)

El Dorado (1966) is a Howard Hawks Western starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan, adapted by Leigh Brackett from Harry Brown's novel The Stars in Their Courses as a reworking of Rio Bravo, released by Paramount in 1967.

El Dorado (Shakira album)

El Dorado is Shakira's eleventh studio album, released May 26, 2017 on Sony Music Latin/RCA. Mostly Spanish-language Latin pop and reggaeton with Maluma, Nicky Jam, Carlos Vives, and Prince Royce; won the 2018 Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album.

El Dorado Correctional Facility

El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF), opened 1991 near El Dorado, Kansas, is the Kansas Department of Corrections' newest prison for adult males, housing maximum, medium, and special management custody, operating the statewide Reception and Diagnostic Unit, and serving as the system's primary mental health facility with 192 behavioral beds.

El Dorado International Airport

El Dorado International Airport, also known as Bogotá International Airport, is Colombia's main international airport serving Bogotá. It is Latin America's busiest, handling 45.8 million passengers in 2024.

El Dorado refinery

El Dorado refinery is the name of two American petroleum refineries: an HF Sinclair refinery in El Dorado, Kansas, and a Delek US refinery in El Dorado, Arkansas.

El Dragón: Return of a Warrior

El Dragón: Return of a Warrior (El dragón: El regreso de un guerrero) is a Mexican action-drama series from 2019 to 2021, starring Sebastián Rulli as heir to a drug cartel.

El Eclipse

El Eclipse is a casino in Siuna, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, mapped in OpenStreetMap at 13.7323° N, 84.778° W near Estadio Marvin Benard; distinct from the Sport Bar Eclipse and from Eclipse Casino brands.

El Ejido, Andalusia

El Ejido (Almería, Andalusia, Spain): municipality in the Poniente Almeriense, capital of Europe's greenhouse agriculture with 12,756 ha under plastic; 93,258 residents in 2026; independent from Dalías since 1982; not the Mexican ejido land system.

El Elio Surf School

El Elio Surf School is a surf school at Calle Los Pinos 127 in Huanchaco, La Libertad, Peru, open daily 07:00-18:00, named for the nearby El Elio surf break, distinct from Urcia Surf School.

El encargado

El encargado: Argentine dark comedy series by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat starring Guillermo Francella as Eliseo, a manipulative Buenos Aires building concierge; four seasons since 2022 on Star+/Disney+, Emmy-nominated, fifth season and Zambrano spin-off announced.

El Encino-La Laguna Gas Pipeline

The El Encino-La Laguna Gas Pipeline is a Mexican natural gas pipeline from Chihuahua to Durango, opened in 2018 to carry Texas gas to CFE power plants.

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline

The El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto El Encino-Topolobampo) is a 572 km natural gas pipeline in northern Mexico built by TC Energy, in service since June 2018.

El entag el harby

El Entag El Harby (نادي الإنتاج الحربي الرياضي), an Egyptian football club founded 2004 in Cairo, plays at Al Salam Stadium in the Second Division; former Premier League side, best finish 7th.

El entenado

El entenado, translated into English as The Witness, is a 1983 novel by Argentine writer Juan José Saer, recounting the sole survivor of a 1516 Spanish expedition.

El Escorial

El Escorial, also known as the Monasterio de El Escorial, is a royal monastery, palace, basilica, and pantheon northwest of Madrid, built for Philip II between 1563 and 1584.

El escritor y sus fantasmas

El escritor y sus fantasmas, translated as The Writer and His Ghosts, is a 1963 essay collection by the Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato on why and how fictions are written.

El espejo de agua

El espejo de agua is a short poetry collection by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, published in Buenos Aires in 1916, whose "Arte poética" helped found creacionismo.

El Estepario Siberiano

El Estepario Siberiano is the online name of Jorge Garrido (born 1996, Valencia), a Spanish viral drummer with over 10 million followers, known for one-handed drumming, covers, and Drumeo lessons; Saratoga and Residente drummer, leader of The Cost.

El estudiante de Salamanca

El estudiante de Salamanca is an 1840 narrative poem by José de Espronceda retelling the Don Juan legend through the libertine student don Félix de Montemar.