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El sí de las niñas

El sí de las niñas is a three-act prose comedy by the Spanish playwright Leandro Fernández de Moratín, premiered in Madrid in 1806 and considered the peak of the Spanish comedy of good manners.

El silencio de la luna

El silencio de la luna is a 1994 poetry collection by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, gathering poems from 1985 to 1993 and winning Colombia's José Asunción Silva prize in 1996.

El Son de la Negra

"El Son de la Negra" is a traditional son of Jalisco, Mexico, from the early 19th century that became the emblematic piece of the modern mariachi repertoire.

El sueño de los héroes

El sueño de los héroes (The Dream of Heroes) is a 1954 novel by the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, the third of his five novels and the one critics most often call his best.

El Sur

El Sur (The South) is Víctor Erice's 1983 Spanish drama, his second feature, adapted from Adelaida García Morales's novella about Estrella and her secretive doctor father in postwar northern Spain. Production was halted 48 days into an 81-day shoot, leaving the Andalusian half unfilmed; it competed at Cannes 1983 and is considered a Spanish cinema landmark.

El Tajín relief carving

El Tajín relief carving is the sculptural program of carved stone panels, friezes, and column drums at El Tajín, Veracruz, mostly narrating the Mesoamerican ballgame and its sacrificial rituals.

El Tatio

El Tatio is a geyser field at about 4,300 m elevation in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, one of the world's largest, with over 80 thermal features across 10 km2, studied geysers El Jefe and El Cobreloa, and community co-management since 2006.

El Teatro Campesino

El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers' Theater), Chicano theater company founded by Luis Valdez in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines as the cultural wing of the United Farm Workers; created the acto skit form and the first Chicano Broadway play, Zoot Suit.

El Techo de la Ballena

El Techo de la Ballena was a Venezuelan artistic and literary collective in Caracas active from 1961 to 1969, combining visual art, poetry, film, and action art.

El Teleno

El Teleno (Picu Talenu), 2183-2188 m, is the highest peak of the Montes de León and the Macizo Galaico-Leonés in southwest León, Spain, an Ordovician quartzite mountain with periglacial block fields and extensive Roman gold mining remains.

El Temür

Yantiemuer (燕鐵木兒, also romanized El Temür) was a Yuan dynasty statesman and general who seized the capital in 1328, installed Emperor Wenzong, and ruled as chancellor until his death in 1333.

El Teniente

El Teniente is an underground copper mine in the Andes of central Chile, about 50 kilometers east of Rancagua, and the largest underground copper deposit in operation.

El Tigre

El Tigre is a Maya archaeological zone in Campeche, Mexico, identified as Itzamkanac, the capital of the Chontal Maya province of Acalán and a river trade port.

El Tigre, Anzoátegui

El Tigre is a Venezuelan oil city in southern Anzoátegui state, capital of Simón Rodríguez Municipality on the Mesa de Guanipa, founded 23 February 1933 around Gulf Oil's OG-1 well, population roughly 203,000-236,000.

El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera

El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is a Nickelodeon Flash-animated series created by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, premiered March 3, 2007, about a 13-year-old torn between superhero father White Pantera and villain grandfather Puma Loco; Annie and Emmy-winning.

El Topo

El Topo (1970) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's Mexican acid western, in which a black-clad gunfighter defeats four desert masters; its Elgin Theater midnight screenings and John Lennon endorsement launched the midnight movie phenomenon.

El Tovar Hotel

El Tovar Hotel, opened January 14, 1905 on the Grand Canyon South Rim, is the park's oldest hotel, designed by Charles Whittlesey for the Santa Fe Railway and Fred Harvey Company, operated today by Xanterra.

El Tri (group)

El Tri, also known as Three Souls in My Mind, is a Mexican rock band formed in 1968 and led by singer Álex Lora, called the father of rock en español in Mexico.

El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve

El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera El Triunfo), decreed 13 March 1990 in Chiapas's Sierra Madre de Chiapas, protects 119,177 ha of Mexico's most diverse cloud forest, the quetzal and horned guan, and joined UNESCO MAB in 1993.

El Tuparro Biosphere Reserve

El Tuparro Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biósfera El Tuparro), UNESCO MAB site in Vichada, Colombia, designated 1979, 1,042,000 ha of Orinoco savanna and forest, core zone El Tuparro National Natural Park.

El Universal Ilustrado

El Universal Ilustrado was a Mexican illustrated weekly magazine, the supplement of the daily El Universal, circulating in Mexico City from 1917 and central to postrevolutionary literary life.

El Vallecito

El Vallecito: Kumiai rock art archaeological zone in Sierra de Juarez, Tecate, Baja California; northernmost public archaeological site in Mexico, 23 painted shelters, El Diablito winter solstice light phenomenon, La Rumorosa style.

El Verdugo

El Verdugo (The Executioner) is a 1963 Spanish-Italian black comedy by Luis García Berlanga, scripted with Rafael Azcona and Ennio Flaiano, in which an undertaker marries an executioner's daughter and inherits the garrote job to keep a state apartment; it won FIPRESCI at Venice 1963.

El vergonzoso en palacio

El vergonzoso en palacio (The Shy Man at Court) is a three-act verse comedy by the Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina, first published in 1624.

El viaje a Nicaragua

El viaje a Nicaragua, full title El viaje a Nicaragua e Intermezzo tropical, is a 1909 travel book by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío about his return home after fifteen years abroad.

El Victor

El Victor is a gold deposit and former open pit in the Mulatos District of Sonora, Mexico, operated by Alamos Gold and mined until mid-2021.

El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve

El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaíno) is a protected area in Baja California Sur, Mexico, decreed in 1988 and one of the country's largest protected areas.

El Waili

El Waili is the stage name of Kareem Emad Gaber (كريم عماد جابر), an Egyptian music producer born in Sohag in 1998 who works in electro-chaabi and EDM.

El Yaki

El Yaki (Luis Alfonso Partida Cisneros), born in 1989, is a Mexican banda singer from Mazatlán, Sinaloa, a former Banda El Recodo vocalist and solo artist since 2014.

El Zonte

El Zonte, also called Bitcoin Beach or Pueblo loko, is a surf village in Chiltiupan, La Libertad, El Salvador, at km 53 of the Litoral highway, known for its right-hand point break and the 2019 bitcoin circular economy project.