Miguel and Tulio help the residents to protect the city from the invaders, by bringing the only entrance, a tunnel to collapse. Cortez and his men find him, and Tzekel-Kan, sees the real, relentless, doom-making gods in the Conquistadores, promises to lead them to El Dorado. In the course of the fight he crashes into a raging underground stream which carries him outside the city and flushed back to the surface. Using his magical abilities, he brings a huge stone statue to life and tries to kill the two Spaniards, as they threaten his position of power. When Miguel slightly injured, recognizes the high priest, that the newcomers are not gods, because gods do not bleed after his performance.
The locals Chel, in love with Tulio to help him and Miguel to play the role of the gods convincing, but it also leads quickly a rift between the two friends caused. These latter wants to offer human sacrifices, which they eventually forbid him to them again and again. The cozy chief and high priest obsessed Tzekel-Kan both try to draw the favor to yourself. After they achieve more by luck than judgment the New World, they follow the path that is marked on the map and get to the golden city, where they are received as gods.
Along with the horse Altivo them manages to escape in a lifeboat. On the run from the losers, they end up accidentally as stowaways on a ship of the ruthless conqueror Cortez, where they are discovered and imprisoned. The two Spanish Miguel and Tulio crooks win at a craps cheating by a map showing the way to El Dorado, the city of gold.