Cuenca, Ecuador

Cuenca, kent offeecially as Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca, is the third lairgest ceety in Ecuador bi population, which totals 329,928. It is the caipital o the Azuay Province. It is locatit in the hielands o Ecuador at aboot 2500 m abuin sea level. The centre o the ceety is leetit as a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid acause o its mony historical biggins.

Geografie an location
Cuenca, caipital o the province o Azuay, is locatit in the sierra o the Andes in the Austro or soothren region o Ecuador.  It is approximately nine oors sooth o Quito an fower oors east o Guayaquil.  The ceety ranges frae 2,350 tae 2,550 meters abuin sea level.

The dominant features o the ceety's geography are an aa the soorce o its name in Spainyie: the fower rivers o Cuenca (meanin a basin made bi a confluence o rivers).  These rivers are the Tomebamba (named efter the Cañari cultur), Yanuncay, Tarqui an Machangara, in order o importance.  The first three o these rivers oreeginate in the Páramo o Parque Nacional Cajas tae the wast o the ceety.  These fower rivers are pairt o the Amazon river watershed.  Cuenca is surroondit bi muntains on aww sides, wi passes tae the wast, sooth an east.

Parishes
Cuenca Canton contains the follaein parishes:

Baños
Chaucha
Checa (Jidcay)
Chiquintad
Cuenca
Cumbe
Llacao
Molleturo
Nulti
Octavio Cordero Palacios (Santa Rosa)
Paccha
Quingeo
Ricaurte
San Joaquin
Santa Ana
Sayausi
Sidcay
Sinincay
Tarqui
Turi
Valle
Victoria del Portete (Irquis)

Category:Cuenca, Ecuador
Category:Populatit places in Azuay Province
Category:Populatit places established in 1557
Category:Provincial caipitals in Ecuador
Category:Warld Heritage Steids in Ecuador