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El mágico prodigioso

El mágico prodigioso is a religious drama in three acts and verse by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, written in 1637 for the Corpus Christi festivities of Yepes, Toledo.

El Mal Querer

El Mal Querer is a 2018 studio album by Catalan singer Rosalía, fusing flamenco with pop and winning the Grammy for Best Latin Rock album.

El Malahy

El Malahy (الملاهي) is an amusement park opened in 2023 in Katameya, New Cairo, Egypt, on Ain El Sokhna Road opposite District 5; features the Dragon Force inverted roller coaster, arcade, and ice rink; distinct from the Saudi company Malahi.

El Malpais National Monument

El Malpais National Monument, Spanish for "the badlands," is a 114,000-acre NPS unit near Grants, New Mexico, established in 1987, protecting the Zuni-Bandera volcanic field's young lava flows, lava tubes, and ice caves.

El Mangrullo Oil and Gas Field

El Mangrullo is a natural gas field in the Neuquina basin of Neuquén Province, Argentina, operated by Pampa Energía since 2016 within the Vaca Muerta play.

El Mariachi

El Mariachi (1992) is Robert Rodriguez's Spanish-language independent neo-Western action debut about a musician mistaken for a hitman, made for about $7,000 and later a Guinness record holder, spawning Desperado and the Mexico Trilogy.

El matadero

El matadero is a short story by Esteban Echeverría, written around 1838–1840 under Rosas and published posthumously in 1871, often called the first work of Argentine fiction.

El Mazār

El Mazār (Al-Mazar, Haifa; المزار، حيفا) was a Palestinian Arab village in Haifa District near Atlit, population 210 in 1945, depopulated in 1948 during Operation Shoter; distinct from the al-Mazar village in the Jenin subdistrict.

El Mçeïguîle

El Mçeïguîle (El Mceiguile, Lemsagle) is a dune field in Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania, at 17.75°N, 6.78°W; distinct from the 'Aklé Mseïguîlé region and a namesake well and hamlet.

El Meco

El Meco, a Maya archaeological site and Postclassic trading port on the bay of Isla Mujeres north of Cancún, Quintana Roo; occupied from the 3rd century, reoccupied in the 11th, home to El Castillo, the region's tallest pyramid.

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.