El Dorado and the false myth Guatavita

In 1990, after three years of preparation and research, Colombian journalist and documentary filmmaker Roberto Tovar Gaitan admitted with a team of divers and television cameras, the Laguna de Guatavita Sesquilé located in Cundinamarca, checking that has a depth of 26 meters in the center. See also in their funds, lots of dead shrubs and grasses almost petrified by the cold, which show that between 1900 and 1906 the lake was dried completely. Tovar also locates a tunnel by which drained the lake. [Citation needed]
On their journey entitled The lagoons of El Dorado, and evidence shows that even when Guatavita was an important ceremonial center for the initiation of young people would be crowned kings Zipas or Bacatá, that gap "was not the real birthplace of El Dorado ». According to the findings, the pond would be true of Siecha (Muisca word that means the house of the man), located near the Pyramid of the Sun Muisca, 35 kilometers of Guatavita. [Citation needed]
The whole story is told in a documentary video series entitled Hidden Colombia, owned by Mr. Tovar and you can see in the video library of the Gold Museum in Bogota