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El Dorado County is a county located in the Gold Country of the U.S. state of California,
in the Sierra Nevada. Its 2004 population
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was estimated to be 172,889, its 2000 population was
156,299. The county seat is Placerville.
Much of the population of
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El Dorado County has become suburbanized, as the metropolitan
Sacramento area has expanded. In addition, the population of the Lake Tahoe area has also
boomed recently.
El Dorado County was one of the
original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time
of statehood. Parts of the county's territory were given to Amador County in 1854 and to Alpine
County in 1864. Prior to statehood, it had been referred to as Coloma County.
The county derives its name from "El Dorado" -- the far-famed fabulous region of genial
clime and never-fading verdure, where gold and precious stones are as common as rocks
and pebbles, where wines gently flow from fountains. The name, meaning "the gilded one"
in Spanish, appears at the beginning of the 16th century as that of a mythical Native American
chief who was said to have been covered with gold dust during the performance of religious rites.
When the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Coloma in January 1848 became known to the world,
California, and particularly that section where gold was discovered, was called "El Dorado."
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