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El Dorado, Venezuela
Place in Bolívar State, Venezuela From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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El Dorado is a small town in eastern Venezuela. It is situated in Bolívar State, on the Cuyuni River. It is the second-largest town in Sifontes Municipality; the capital of the municipality is Tumeremo.
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It is on the road to Brazil. El Dorado has a small airport, IATA: EOR, ICAO: SVED.
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History
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El Dorado was founded in the 1890s. Gold mining was developing in the area, and there was a background of international tension caused by the Essequibo border dispute between Venezuela and Britain.
Prison
The town has a prison, the Centro Penitenciario de Oriente El Dorado. The Venezuelan prison system is generally overcrowded,[1] and El Dorado prison has been described in the British press as "notorious".[2][3] In 2015 the Venezuelan press reported the completion of a stage in a project to expand the prison, providing new facilities for the rehabilitation of offenders.[4]
Prisoners
- Henri Charrière. The prison is mentioned in the book Papillon.[3] While the accuracy of the book has been questioned, it is not disputed that its author, Henri Charrière, was imprisoned in Venezuela in the 1940s,[5] an epoch when the prisoners were assigned to mobile detention camps.
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