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El Qattah

El Qattah (Qattah, El-Qatta) is an ancient Egyptian site in Giza governorate, Lower Egypt, northwest of Cairo, with a Middle Kingdom necropolis of at least 14 tombs, including the inscribed tomb of the prince-governor Neha.

El Raso

El Raso (El Freíllo), Vetton Iron Age hillfort in Candeleda, Ávila, Spain, on the southern Sierra de Gredos; about 25 ha, 2-km wall, 600 houses, occupied late 3rd to mid 1st century BC.

El rayo que no cesa

El rayo que no cesa ("The Lightning That Does Not Cease") is a 1936 book of thirty love poems, mostly sonnets, by the Spanish poet Miguel Hernández.

El renacer de Luna

El Renacer de Luna (also El renacer de luna) is a 2026 Mexican TelevisaUnivision telenovela by producer Roy Rojas, airing on Las Estrellas at 6:30 p.m. from June 22 to October 9, 2026, with 80 episodes starring Marisol del Olmo, Matías Novoa, Marlene Favela and Flavio Medina, adapted from Félix B. Caignet's Morir para vivir.

El Rey

El Rey is a Maya archaeological zone at kilometer 18 of Cancún's hotel zone, a Late Postclassic (1200–1550 AD) maritime trade and fishing settlement, named for a 1909 sculpture, with columned palaces and mural paintings.

El Rey (music)

"El Rey" ("The King") is a ranchera song written by José Alfredo Jiménez, made famous worldwide by Vicente Fernández, and selected in 2025 for the United States' National Recording Registry.

El Rey del Barrio

El rey del barrio (The King of the Neighborhood), 1949 Mexican Golden Age comedy by Gilberto Martínez Solares starring Tin Tan as a Robin Hood-style con man; also the Spanish title of the 2020 Apatow film The King of Staten Island.

El Rey Network

El Rey Network was an English-language, Latino-infused cable channel founded by Robert Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures, launched December 2013 under a Comcast minority-network commitment, backed by Univision, and shut down January 1, 2021 before relaunching as a free Cinedigm streaming service.

El Risitas

El Risitas (Juan Joya Borja, 1956-2021) was a Spanish comedian from Seville whose wheezing laugh in a 2007 Ratones Coloraos interview became the Spanish Laughing Guy meme, the KEKW Twitch emote, and a recurring viral format.

El Rocío

El Rocío, village in Almonte, Huelva, Andalusia, on the edge of Doñana National Park; destination of the Romería del Rocío pilgrimage before Pentecost, centered on the Virgen del Rocío, with about a million participants.

El Rosario Formation

El Rosario Formation (Formación Rosario), Late Cretaceous Campanian-Maastrichtian marine to non-marine clastic unit on the Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico; type section near El Rosario town; includes deep-marine turbidites and rich fossils.

El Rubius

El Rubius (Rubén Doblas Gundersen, born 1990, Mijas, Spain) is a Spanish-Norwegian YouTuber and Twitch streamer; his elrubiusOMG channel led Spanish-language YouTube until Mikecrack passed it in 2023.

El Ruedo

El Ruedo (Villa Romana de El Ruedo) is a Roman villa and necropolis near Almedinilla, Córdoba, Spain, excavated 1988-89, occupied 1st-5th centuries AD, with peristyle, mosaics, sculptures, and BIC protection since 2005.

El Sabinito

El Sabinito: pre-Columbian archaeological zone in Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas, Mexico; Complejo Pueblito culture, occupied about 200-1300 CE, with over 600 stone structures, twin circular buildings, and a pyramid with ceremonial altar.

El Salvador

El Salvador: Central American country of about 6 million, dollarized economy with remittances near 23% of GDP. Under President Nayib Bukele since 2019: Bitcoin legal tender since 2021, state of emergency since 2022, world's highest incarceration rate, democratic erosion.

El Salvador national football team

El Salvador national football team, La Selecta, El Salvador men's soccer team: Concacaf side run by FESFUT; two World Cups (1970, 1982), six losses, one goal (Luis Ramírez), best regional finish second in 1981.

El Santo

El Santo (El Enmascarado de Plata), real name Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (1917-1984), Mexican wrestler and actor; debuted 1942, never unmasked, starred in 52 monster films and a 1952 comic, icon of Mexican popular culture.

El santo de la espada

El santo de la espada is a 1933 biography of José de San Martín by Ricardo Rojas, published in Buenos Aires, that shaped San Martín's cult as Father of the Fatherland.

El Santo filmography

El Santo filmography: the 50-plus Mexican luchador films (1958-1982, 52 or 53 by different counts) starring Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata; began with two 1958 Mexico-Cuba co-productions smuggled out of Cuba in coffins.

El Sawy Culture Wheel

El Sawy Culture Wheel (ساقية الصاوي) is a privately owned cultural center on Zamalek island in Cairo, Egypt, the first of its kind, founded in 2003 by Mohamed El Sawy.

El Sayayín

El Sayayín was the stage name of John Jairo Sayas Díaz, a Colombian champeta singer from Cartagena whose hit "La voladora" carried the genre nationwide before his 2012 death.

El Segundo, California

El Segundo is a South Bay city in Los Angeles County, California, named for Standard Oil's second West Coast refinery (1911). Incorporated 1917; 2020 population 17,272; home to the Chevron refinery and aerospace offices near LAX.

El Señor de los Cielos

El Señor de los Cielos (The Lord of the Skies) is Telemundo's Spanish-language crime drama (2013–2026, ten seasons) starring Rafael Amaya as drug lord Aurelio Casillas, inspired by Amado Carrillo Fuentes; Emmy-winning, ending with a final season in July 2026.

El Señor de los Cielos season 10

El Señor de los Cielos season 10 (El Señor de los Cielos 10) is the final season of Telemundo's crime superseries, ordered January 2026, premiered July 7, 2026 at 9pm/8c on Telemundo and Peacock, with Rafael Amaya returning as Aurelio Casillas.

El Séptimo Círculo

El Séptimo Círculo was an Argentine crime fiction collection published in Buenos Aires by Emecé from 1945, directed at first by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

El Shaddai (אל שדי)

El Shaddai (אל שדי), or Shaddai alone, a Hebrew Bible epithet of God translated "God Almighty" via the Septuagint pantokratōr; etymology debated, often linked to Akkadian šadû "mountain".

El Sharara Oil Field

El Sharara (حقل الشرارة) is Libya's largest oil field, in the Murzuq Basin about 800 km south of Tripoli, operated by Akakus Oil Operations and producing light crude since December 1996.

El Sharara-Az-Zawiyah Oil Pipeline

The El Sharara-Az-Zawiyah Oil Pipeline is a 723 km crude oil pipeline in Libya, carrying oil from the El Sharara oilfield to the Az-Zawiya coastal terminal.

El Sharara-Mellitah Oil Pipeline

The El Sharara-Mellitah Oil Pipeline is a 30-inch crude oil pipeline in Libya, built in 2004 and 2005, that carries El Sharara field production to Mediterranean export terminals.

El Shincal

El Shincal de Quimivil is an Inca archaeological site near Londres in Catamarca Province, Argentina, built between 1471 and 1536 and regarded as the southernmost major city of the Inca empire.