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Santa Ana, Cuenca

Explore Santa Ana, a rural parish of Cuenca, with its communities, traditions, landscape, history and source-backed map.

Parish life & Sigsicocha waters

Explore Santa Ana

Discover the parish centre and the communities and lagoon to its south. Numbers on the map match the list.

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6 places

Imagery: Cuenca · ESA · Copernicus. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Map sources

A parish of communities and shared water

The Santa Ana PDOT PDF identifies 21 recognized communities. A UPS study of community water management places the parish east of Cuenca, records the 1878 civil recognition in the territorial-division law, and describes the organization of water systems as part of local development. The study also documents the community committees and parish institutions involved in that work. 1 2

Agriculture, paja toquilla and ritual

The water-management thesis describes agriculture and livestock as major economic activities and identifies paja toquilla, the church and the wood-fired oven in the parish symbols as markers of local history. It also records Carnival, Holy Week, All Souls, the Santa Ana feast, Inti Raymi and escaramuza among the parish's cultural practices. Cuenca's public proposal separately presents Santa Ana as a paja toquilla parish. 2 3

Plaza, church and landscape

Cuenca's mobility and public-space plan describes Santa Ana's radial growth around the central plaza, with the plaza and church as the main concentration of community activity, and identifies agriculture, livestock and tourism as principal activities. A recent municipal rural-routes announcement includes Santa Ana among the territories where nature, gastronomy, traditions and heritage are being connected. 4 5

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