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El médico de su honra

El médico de su honra (The Physician of His Honour) is a Spanish Golden Age tragedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, first printed in Madrid in 1637.

El Mèdol

El Mèdol (Pedrera romana del Mèdol) is a Roman limestone quarry near Tarragona, Spain, that supplied golden Miocene stone for Tarraco's monuments, with the 16–20 m Agulla needle; UNESCO-listed within Tarraco since 2000.

El Mela

El Mela (Cerro El Mela) is a mountain in the Sierra de Velasco, La Rioja Province, Argentina, usually identified as the range's highest summit at 4,160 m.

El Merk Oil and Gas Field

El Merk is an oil and gas condensate field in Block 208 of Algeria's Berkine basin, operated by Groupement Berkine, with first oil in March 2013 and a designed peak of about 160,000 barrels per day.

El Metropolitano

El Metropolitano is the bus rapid transit system of metropolitan Lima, Peru, operated by the city since 2010; articulated buses on about 27 km of dedicated lanes carry some 700,000 passengers a day.

El Micha

El Micha, born Michael Fernando Sierra Miranda in Havana in 1981, is a Cuban reggaeton and cubatón singer who reached Billboard's Tropical Airplay Top 10 in 2018.

El Mirador

El Mirador: major Preclassic Maya city in the Mirador Basin, Petén, Guatemala, known for the La Danta pyramid (about 72 m tall), 177 km of causeways linking hundreds of settlements, and collapse around 150 CE.

El mono gramático

El mono gramático (The Monkey Grammarian) is a 1974 book of poetic prose by Mexican writer Octavio Paz, recounting a walk to Galta, near Jaipur, India.

El Monte, California

El Monte, California: San Gabriel Valley city about 12 miles east of downtown Los Angeles at the I-605/I-10 junction; incorporated 1912, population about 105,000-109,000, historically agricultural, now a diverse retail and transit hub.

El Morro National Monument

El Morro National Monument (New Mexico) protects Inscription Rock, a Zuni Sandstone bluff with about 2,000 inscriptions and petroglyphs spanning nearly 1,000 years, a permanent pool, and Ancestral Puebloan sites; established December 8, 1906.

El Mosaico

El Mosaico was a Colombian literary weekly published in Bogotá from 1858 to 1872, founded by Eugenio Díaz Castro and José María Vergara y Vergara to institutionalize costumbrismo.

El Mozote massacre

The El Mozote massacre was a mass killing of civilians by the Salvadoran army, chiefly the Atlacatl Battalion, in Morazán in December 1981, during the Salvadoran Civil War.

El Muelle

El Muelle (Spanish, "the pier") names several unrelated waterfront venues: El Muelle Live, the 8,900-capacity open-air concert space at Muelle 12, Port of Alicante, opened 2025; plus a Buenos Aires restaurant, Las Palmas shopping center, and others.

El Musel LNG Terminal

The El Musel LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas plant at the port of Gijón, Asturias, Spain, opened in 2023 and owned by Enagás and Reganosa.

El Negreeto

El Negreeto is the fourth studio album by the Senegalese-American singer Akon, released on October 4, 2019, his first Spanish-language album, mixing reggaeton, bachata, and merengue.

El Nido, Palawan

El Nido, Palawan: first-class Philippine municipality at northern Palawan, named for edible swiftlet nests, famed for Bacuit Bay limestone karst, over 640,000 annual tourists, and ongoing environmental rehabilitation and water infrastructure programs.

El Niño

El Niño (The Kid) is a 2014 Spanish-French thriller by Daniel Monzón about teenage hashish smugglers in the Strait of Gibraltar, starring Luis Tosar and debutant Jesús Castro; it earned €16.2 million in Spain and won 4 Goyas from 16 nominations.

El Niño–Southern Oscillation

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a Pacific Ocean climate pattern alternating between the warm El Niño and cool La Niña phases, driving year-to-year climate variability.

El Orejano Oil and Gas Field

El Orejano is a shale gas and condensate field in the Vaca Muerta formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina, discovered by YPF in 2012 and operated in a joint venture with Dow.

El otro, el mismo

El otro, el mismo is a 1964 poetry collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, gathering his El hacedor poems with fifty-seven new ones.

El Oued Province

El Oued Province (Wilaya d'El Oued), wilaya 39 of Algeria in the northeastern Sahara, capital El Oued. Known for the 15th-century ghout oasis system (FAO GIAHS since 2011) and expanding pivot-irrigated date palm and potato farming.

El Padrecito

El Padrecito (The Little Priest) is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas as Padre Sebastián, a young priest winning over the town of San Jerónimo el Alto.

El País

El País (EL PAÍS), Spanish daily newspaper founded in Madrid May 4, 1976 by PRISA under Juan Luis Cebrián; independent, global Spanish-language paper with editions across Spain, the Americas, and the US, 451,304 subscribers at end-2025.

El País Cultural

El País Cultural is the cultural supplement of the Uruguayan daily El País, published in Montevideo since 1989, founded and directed for 16 years by critic Homero Alsina Thevenet.

El país de las últimas cosas

El país de las últimas cosas, titled In the Country of Last Things in English, is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic 1987 novel by the American writer Paul Auster.

El Palo Alto

El Palo Alto is a famous ~1,000-year-old coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) on San Francisquito Creek, California Historical Landmark #2, namesake of Palo Alto; 110 ft tall, down from 162 ft, saved by wells capped and misting.

El Pantanal Boliviano

El Pantanal Boliviano is the Bolivian portion of the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, a Ramsar site (no. 1089) of 3,189,888 ha in Santa Cruz Department, designated 17 September 2001, protected by Otuquis and San Matías.

El Paso (song)

"El Paso" is a 1959 Western ballad written and recorded by Marty Robbins for Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs; it topped country and pop charts, won the 1961 Grammy for Best Country & Western Recording, and spawned a trilogy.

El Paso City

El Paso City (El Paso City Zlatibor) is a Wild West theme park in Vodice, 14 km from Zlatibor, Serbia, opened in 2020 by Milija Čumić; a river splits its cowboy town, Sitting Bull Indian village, and Zlatibor hamlet, named after El Paso, Texas.

El Paso County, Colorado

El Paso County, Colorado, a Front Range county with county seat Colorado Springs; established November 1, 1861 as one of Colorado's original 17 counties; population 757,040 (2025 estimate), home to Pikes Peak and Fort Carson.