El Dorado: the golden man of Lake Guatavita

On Lake Guatavita, high in the hills northeast of Bogotá, an heir of the peoples we now call the Muisca went out on a reed raft, covered in gold dust, and offered that gold to the water: that is how don Juan, cacique of Guatavita, told it to the chronicler Juan Rodríguez Freyle. We follow, slowly, how that golden man became El Dorado, a city of gold that no one ever found.