| Official Name: | El Dorado |
| Pushpin Map: | Venezuela |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name: | Venezuela |
| Subdivision Name1: | Bolívar State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Sifontes Municipality |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 2 March 1894 |
| Timezone: | VST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 6.7167°N -61.6167°W |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
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.
It is on the road to Brazil. El Dorado has a small airport, .
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.
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] 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.[3]