[7] El Dorado, released in 1995, was produced by Federico López and was recorded from October to December 1994 at Audiovisión Studios in Bogotá, Colombia.

[12] The music video of "Bolero Falaz", produced by Rhayuela Films, received considerate rotation and attention from MTV Latin America, which gave the group international exposure.

[11] The album also led the group to be included in the lineup for the first edition of the festival Rock al Parque in Colombia, alongside acts like Fobia, 1280 Almas and La Derecha, among others.

[13] The album has been considered as highly influential within Latin American music as well as Colombian rock, Nicolás Vallejo Cano from Vice wrote that "El Dorado is a visionary songbook that celebrates our many bloodlines and that, as a metaphor, breaks down the many borders that separate us as Colombians, It is a forceful stake that cuts across time and space, class and gender, tribe and race.

[10] Music historian Umberto Pérez commented about El Dorado that "although on their debut album, 'Con el corazón en la mano', Andrea Echeverri, Héctor Buitrago and their companions already suggest something, I think that two years later, on 'El Dorado', they end up finding the crux of it that they were looking for, which is a great communion of elements of popular, Colombian and Latin American music with aesthetic and visual elements of popular culture", he also likened the album to Mexican band Café Tacvba's Re and Argentine singer Charly García's Clics modernos writing that "those three albums are watershed moments in the history of popular music in each of those countries, even on a continental level, they are breakthrough records in musical, sound, aesthetic, lyrical or narrative spectrums, I think that El Dorado by Aterciopelados has that, it has something new, genuine".