Cuenca

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Cuenca

Total population

495,776

Coordinates-2.90°, -79.00°

Demographic figures from INEC Ecuador. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Cuenca, officially Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca, is an Ecuadorian city, head of the canton of the same name and capital of the province of Azuay, as well as its largest and most populated city. It is crossed by the Tomebamba, Tarqui, Yanuncay and Machángara rivers, in the south-central inter-Andean region of Ecuador, in the Paute river basin, at an altitude of 2,538 meters above sea level and with a temperate Andean climate averaging 16.3 °C.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.