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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.
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.