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Cuenca

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Cuenca

 

a city in Ecuador, administrative center of Azuay Province. Located in an Andean valley at an altitude of nearly 2,600 m, on the Pan-American Highway. Population, 77,300 (1970). An important economic center in the Andes. There are textile and food enterprises; Panama hats are produced for export by handicraft industry. The city has a university. Cuenca was founded in 1557.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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El historiador conquense Julian Recuenco Perez, doctor en Historia por la UNED, ha publicado un interesante estudio sobre el funcionamiento del tribunal diocesano de Cuenca en los primeros anos del siglo XIX, es decir, en el periodo final (de crisis) del denominado Antiguo Regimen.
We explained to the participants in both films that the resulting work would be shared with Project * CERCA consortium members, within Cuenca and the Azuay province (and possibly at a national level), posted to YouTube, and used in future presentations of Project CERCA's work at conferences and in articles.
Cuenca's images resonate with romance, vivid memories and abstracted dreams.
'It is deemed important for DBM to reconsider its move to shift to annual cash-based budget scheme, particularly giving attention to the contextual factors that have been affecting the disbursement performance of government agencies/units across the years,' Cuenca said.
Lo anterior representa el contexto para proceder a analizar los espacios naturales y en ese sentido la cuenca puede ser considerada como un ejemplo de sistema geomorfologico complejo, ya que tiene todas las caracteristicas inherentes.
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