Dorado es una constelación austral, creada por Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser y Frederick de Houtman entre 1595 y 1597, y listada por primera vez en la Uranometria de Johann Bayer de 1603; conocida también como "Pez Espada", recibe su nombre en realidad del dorado delfín o mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus, un pez comestible nativo de América. En ella es visible la mayor parte de la Gran Nube de Magallanes.

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Dorado /dɒˈreɪdoʊ/ 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 dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), which is known as dorado in Portuguese, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish. Dorado is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa. The South Ecliptic pole also lies within this constellation. Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Portuguese, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars; it is treated (like the adjacent asterism Argo Navis) as a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in -ō (like Io or Callisto or Argo), which have a genitive ending -ūs.

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