El Dorado Canyon, Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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El Dorado Canyon is a canyon in southern Clark County, Nevada famed for its rich silver and gold mines. The canyon was named in 1857 by steamboat entrepreneur Captain George Alonzo Johnson when gold and silver was discovered here. It drains into the Colorado River at the former site of Nelson's Landing. ()
Coordinates: 35°33'55"N, 114°45'47"W
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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