El Dorado County
El Dorado County is in California. From the Gold Country in the west, this county extends east across the Sierra Nevada mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Placerville and El Dorado Hills.
Placerville
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Placerville is a town in El Dorado County in California's Gold Country. It was a key supply hub during the Gold Rush, and was California's third-largest town when it was incorporated in 1857.
El Dorado Hills
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El Dorado Hills is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California. Located in the Greater Sacramento region of Northern California, it had a population of 50,547 at the 2020 census, up from 42,108 at the 2010 census.
Coloma
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Coloma is a small town in El Dorado County in California's Gold Country region. It was home to Sutter's Mill, the site where the California Gold Rush began after gold was discovered in 1848.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Pollock Pines.
Pollock Pines
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Pollock Pines is a census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
El Dorado County
- Type: County with 181,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “El Dorado”, “El Dorado County, CA”, and “El Dorado County, California”
- Neighbors: Alpine County, Amador County, Placer County, and Sacramento County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
38.7574° or 38° 45′ 27″ northLongitude of center
-120.5276° or 120° 31′ 39″ westPopulation
181,000Elevation
3,944 feet (1,202 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316944789OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“El Dorado County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “El Dorado County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة إل دورادو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه إل دورادو، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Էլ Դորադո շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu d’El Dorado”
- Asturian: “El Dorado (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “El-Dorado qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “El-Dorado”
- Basque: “El Dorado konderria”
- Bavarian: “El Dorado County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “El Dorado County”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Дарада (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Дарада”
- Bishnupriya: “এল ডোরাডো কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “এল ডোরাডো কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Ел Дорадо”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’El Dorado”
- Cebuano: “El Dorado County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئێل دۆرادۆ”
- Chechen: “Эль-Дорадо”
- Chinese: “El Dorado Kūn”
- Chinese: “埃尔多拉多县”
- Chinese: “埃爾多拉多縣”
- Chinese: “艾奧多拉多縣”
- Czech: “El Dorado County”
- Danish: “El Dorado County”
- Dutch: “El Dorado County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Eldorado”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Eldorado”
- Estonian: “El Dorado maakond”
- Finnish: “El Doradon piirikunta”
- French: “comté d’El Dorado”
- French: “Comté d’El Dorado”
- Galician: “Condado de El Dorado”
- Georgian: “ელ-დორადოს ოლქი”
- German: “El Dorado County”
- Gilaki: “ال دورادو شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אל דורדו”
- Hungarian: “El Dorado megye”
- Icelandic: “El Dorado County”
- Icelandic: “El Dorado-sýsla”
- Indonesian: “County El Dorado, California”
- Indonesian: “El Dorado County”
- Irish: “Contae El Dorado, California”
- Irish: “Contae El Dorado”
- Italian: “contea di El Dorado”
- Italian: “Contea di El Dorado”
- Italian: “El Dorado County”
- Japanese: “エル・ドラド郡”
- Japanese: “エルドラド郡”
- Korean: “엘도라도군”
- Latin: “El Dorado Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “El Dorado County”
- Lithuanian: “El Dorado apygarda”
- Low German: “El Dorado County”
- Malayalam: “എൽ ഡോറാഡോ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “एल डोराडो काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “ال دورادو شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ال دورادو شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Dorado Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “El Dorado County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Dorado County”
- Norwegian: “El Dorado County”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat d’El Dorado”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat dEl Dorado”
- Pampanga: “El Dorado County, California”
- Pampanga: “El Dorado County”
- Persian: “شهرستان ال دورادو، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ال دورادو”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo El Dorado”
- Portuguese: “Condado de El Dorado”
- Portuguese: “Condado de El Dourado”
- Romanian: “Comitatul El Dorado, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul El Dorado”
- Romanian: “El Dorado County”
- Russian: “Эль-Дорадо”
- Sardinian: “contea de El Dorado”
- Serbian: “Округ Ел Дорејдо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Dorado County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Dorado County”
- Slovenian: “El Dorado County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje El Dorado”
- Spanish: “Condado de El Dorado”
- Spanish: “El Dorado County California”
- Spanish: “El Dorado County”
- Swedish: “El Dorado County”
- Tagalog: “El Dorado”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng El Dorado, California”
- Tatar: “Эль-Дорадо (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Эль-Дорадо”
- Tumbuka: “El Dorado County, California”
- Tumbuka: “El Dorado County”
- Turkish: “El Dorado County, CA”
- Turkish: “El Dorado County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “El Dorado County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “El Dorado County”
- Turkish: “El Dorado ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “El Dorado ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “El Dorado ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “El Dorado ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Дорадо”
- Urdu: “ایل دورادو کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de El Dorado”
- Vietnamese: “Quận El Dorado, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận El Dorado”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han El Dorado, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han El Dorado”
- Welsh: “El Dorado County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “El Dorado County”
- Western Panjabi: “ال ڈوراڈو کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔多拉多县”
- Yue Chinese: “艾奧多拉多縣”
- “El Dorado”
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