Where is the original birthplace of the cacao tree?

In the region watered by the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers the cacao tree still grows wild. This country is where cocoa grew originally and where it still does.

It is the same region that the Spanish adventurer Orellano named El Dorado, the City of Gold. This country, the original home of the cacao tree that gives us the alluring chocolate, is the mythical piece of earth that fascinated so many adventurers and dreamers. They all failed to find the gold City, because it was not a reality but a vision. However they did found a different kind of gold: cocoa, the chocolate beverage.

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