Into El Dorado

The land which connected the Spanish heartland in the Caribbean with Pizarro's new conquest in Peru - what we call Colombia today - was still unknown to the Spanish, and for all the riches of they had discovered in the Inca empire, it was here that the gold they craved was to be found in abundance.

In this episode we look at the first attempts to move into the interior and connect up Peru with the Atlantic Ocean.

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