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cuenca
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n. The third largest city in Ecuador, capital of Azuay province.
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Cuenca may refer to:
- redirect Cuenca, Spain
Cuenca is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciones) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is one of the five electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Castilla La Mancha. Cuenca's electorate fell between 1996 and 2000 and again between 2000 and 2004 - one of only three districts along with Burgos and Vizcaya where the electorate fell in 2004. This decline continued at the 2008 and 2011 elections.
At the time of the 2008 election, Cuenca was the only municipality with more than 10,000 voters, although it still accounted for only 36,000 voters out of the total of 165,000.
Cuenca is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- César Cuenca (born 1981), Argentine boxer
- Christina Cuenca (born 1980), American beauty queen
- Isaac Cuenca (born 1991), Spanish footballer
- Jake Cuenca (born 1987), American-born Filipino actor
- Jean-José Cuenca (born 1986), French footballer
- João Paulo Cuenca (born 1978), Brazilian writer
- Luis Cuenca (1921–2004), Spanish actor
- Mario Cuenca (born 1975), Argentine footballer
Usage examples of "cuenca".
In the southern provinces about Cuenca, cutaneous affections are quite frequent.
The two cordilleras inclosing it are tied by the mountain-knots of Assuay and Chisinchi, so that the valley is subdivided into three basins, those of Cuenca, Ambato, and Quito proper, which increase in beauty and altitude as we travel north.
The high ridge of Chisinchi, stretching across the great plateau from Cotopaxi to Iliniza, separates the evergreen Valley of Quito from the arid and melancholy valleys of Cuenca and Ambato.
Chisinchi, stretching across the great plateau from Cotopaxi to Iliniza, separates the evergreen Valley of Quito from the arid and melancholy valleys of Cuenca and Ambato.
Eugenio Torralba, tried by the Inquisition of Cuenca in 1531, about whom it was said that he flew through the air on a reed.