Dorado
Dorado (, ) is a constellation in the Southern Sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the mahi-mahi (''Coryphaena hippurus''), which is known as ''dorado'' ("golden") in Sp ...
is a southern constellation.
Dorado may also refer to:
Biology
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Coryphaena
''Coryphaena'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes, and is currently the only known genus in the family (biology), family Coryphaenidae. The generic name is from Greek language, Greek κορυφή (' ...
'', a genus of oceanic fish also known as dolphinfishes
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Mahi-mahi
The mahi-mahi ( ) or common dolphinfish (''Coryphaena hippurus'') is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. It is also widely called dorado (not to be confused with '' Salmin ...
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Salminus
''Salminus'', popularly known as dorado or dourado, is a genus of relatively large (up to long), predatory freshwater fish from the family Bryconidae, of which they are the only members of the subfamily Salmininae. They are native to large trop ...
'', freshwater fish from South America
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Salminus brasiliensis
''Salminus brasiliensis'', also known as the golden dorado, dorado, river tiger, dourado, or jaw characin is a large, predatory Characiformes, characiform freshwater fish found in central and east-central South America. Despite having ''Salm ...
'', a popular sport fish
Computers
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Dorado Software, IT company specializing in the development of network management software
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Xerox Dorado
The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window- ...
, a CPU used as a developer machine at Xerox PARC and in the Xerox 1132 Lisp machine
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ClearPath Dorado computers, by Unisys
Other uses
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''Dorado'' (album) by Son of the Velvet Rat, 2017
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Dorado (grape)
Loureira is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Vila Verde. The population in 2021 was 1106 in an area of 1.87 km².
References
Freguesias of Vila Verde
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, another name for the Portuguese wine grape Loureira
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"Dorado" (song), a 2020 song by Mahmood, Sfera Ebbasta and Feid
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Dorado, Puerto Rico
Dorado () is a Dorado barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan and is located in the northern region of the island, bordering the Atlantic ...
, a municipality in Puerto Rico
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Dorado Airport
Dorado Airport or Dorado Beach Airport was a small single runway airport in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
Clara Livingston, the owner of the property at the time, ordered the strip be built, and her friend, Amelia Earhart, may have used the facility a ...
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IATA Code
IATA codes are abbreviations that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) publishes to facilitate air travel. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as unigrams, digrams, trigrams, or tetragrams, respec ...
:DDS) a former airport in Dorado, Puerto Rico
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Dorado Wings
Dorado Wings was a small commuter airline that operated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Dorado Airport in the tourist center of Dorado, Puerto Rico. Dorado Wings was the only commercial operator at Do ...
, a Puerto Rican airline that operated between 1964 and 1988
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Javier Dorado
Francisco Javier Dorado Bielsa (17 February 1977 – 27 February 2025) was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a left-back.
Club career
Dorado was born in Talavera de la Reina, Province of Toledo. A youth product of La Liga powerhou ...
(1977–2025), Spanish footballer
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Dorados de Sinaloa
Club Deportivo Dorados de Sinaloa, simply known as Dorados, is a Mexican professional football club based in Culiacán, Sinaloa. It plays in the Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football.
History
Dorados de Sinaloa ...
, a Mexican professional football club
See also
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El Dorado
El Dorado () is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions ...
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USS ''Dorado''
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USCGC ''Dorado''
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Dourado (disambiguation)
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