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El Ar(i)ouia cisterns (Tubusuctu)
El Arouia (El Ariouia) cisterns, Roman water reservoirs at El Kseur, Algeria, supplying ancient Tubusuctu (Tiklat). Rectangle 76 x 38 m, 15 vaulted compartments, over 12,000 m3 capacity, fed by two aqueducts; national heritage since 1999.
El Ávila National Park
El Ávila National Park, officially Waraira Repano since 2011, is a Venezuelan national park decreed in 1958 covering over 85,000 ha of the Cordillera de la Costa between Caracas and the Caribbean, rising to Pico Naiguatá at 2,765 m.
El Brujo
El Brujo is an archaeological complex in Peru's Chicama Valley, known for the Moche Huaca Cao Viejo temple and the tomb of the Lady of Cao.
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 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 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 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 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 Gaada
El Gaada (el Gaâda, El Gada) names several Maghreb places: a commune on a limestone plateau in Mascara Province, Algeria; a Roman-era site near Volubilis, Morocco; a Western Sahara region; and Tunisian archaeological localities.
El Hamma Experimental Garden
The El Hamma Experimental Garden (Jardin d'Essai du Hamma, حديقة التجارب الحامة) is a 32-hectare botanical garden at the Bay of Algiers, created by decree in 1832.
El Kala Biosphere Reserve
El Kala Biosphere Reserve (محمية القالة الوطنية), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 17 December 1990 in El Tarf, Algeria, around the 76,438-ha El Kala National Park; last refuge of the Barbary red deer, with Ramsar lakes Tonga and Oubeira and over 60,000 wintering migratory birds.
el Kharafish
El Kharafish is an archaeological site in Egypt's Western Desert, a hill 25 km north of Dakhla Oasis where Sheikh Muftah pastoral nomads camped around 3000 to 2200 BC.
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 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 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 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 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 Pantanal Boliviano
El Pantanal Boliviano is the Bolivian portion of the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, a Ramsar site (no. 1089) of 3,189,888 ha in Santa Cruz Department, designated 17 September 2001, protected by Otuquis and San Matías.
El Paso City
El Paso City (El Paso City Zlatibor) is a Wild West theme park in Vodice, 14 km from Zlatibor, Serbia, opened in 2020 by Milija Čumić; a river splits its cowboy town, Sitting Bull Indian village, and Zlatibor hamlet, named after El Paso, Texas.
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar) is a 714,566-ha Sonoran Desert protected area in Sonora, Mexico: ten maar craters, North America's largest active dune field, and World Heritage status since 2013.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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.