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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.

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.