Sources
Where the information on this site comes from.
Sources used in this guide
The numbers beside the text link to these sources. Last reviewed: 9 September 2026.
- 1. El Mercado 10 de Agosto celebra 72 años de historia, tradición y gastronomía
GAD Municipal de Cuenca · Published: 4 August 2026
What the market is, what it sells and the 2026 anniversary announcement.
- 2. En agosto culminan trabajos de rehabilitación en el Parque Calderón
GAD Municipal de Cuenca · Published: 31 July 2026
Progress report on the rehabilitation works, with a target finish date.
- 3. Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca
UNESCO World Heritage Centre ·
The historic center, its grid of streets and its 1999 World Heritage listing. The listed site and its buffer zone have separate boundaries.
- 4. División Política Territorial del Cantón Cuenca
GAD Municipal de Cuenca ·
The municipal list of parish names and types: 15 urban, 21 rural.
- 5. Sobre Baños: historia y símbolos
GAD Parroquial de Baños ·
The parish's own account of its thermal waters, farming and religious life.
- 6. Turismo
GAD Parroquial de San Joaquín ·
Background on basket weaving and the Yanuncay valley.
- 7. Descubre Nulti: La parroquia del pan
Fundación Municipal Turismo para Cuenca / VisitCuenca · Published: 22 August 2023
Families baking bread in wood-fired ovens, and the use of panela.
- 8. Mote pillo
Layla Pujol / Recetas de Laylita · Published: 23 March 2008 · Updated: 19 January 2020
One named cook's recipe and the region she associates it with. Ingredients vary from cook to cook.
- 9. El Mercado: atención y reservas
El Mercado ·
The restaurant's own page and its Calle Larga address. Not to be confused with the municipal markets.
- 10. Próximos eventos
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo del Azuay ·
The official program, where you can check dates and venues for individual events.
- 12. La retreta de la Guardia Ciudadana vuelve al corazón de Cuenca luego de ocho años
GAD Municipal de Cuenca · Published: 2 September 2026
Report of a band performance in the park.
Further reading
More to read about Cuenca.
- 11. Decision 23 COM VIII.C.1
UNESCO World Heritage Committee · Published: 1999
Further reading: the original inscription decision and its cultural criteria.
Maps and areas
Last updated: 2026-04-30
- Cuenca Atlas written material · Cuenca Atlas team
- Rural parish boundaries · Cuenca Atlas
- Municipal walking routes · Cuenca Atlas
- Urban parish boundaries · Cuenca Atlas
- Bus routes and stops · Based on the municipal route maps
Bus network
Bus routes and stops come from the city’s published transit data and the municipal route maps. Services can change.
Municipal route mapsMaps and images
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Cuenca and its parishes
Read about the city and all 36 parishes, with videos, PDF documents and original sources.
Terrain and imagery
- Copernicus GLO-30 · Cuenca terrain
- produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved
Copernicus DEM GLO-30 Free & Open licence
Downloaded through OpenTopography: 2026-01-03. The copyright periods in the credit are not the download date.
Derived from the 30 m digital surface model: clipped, smoothed with a 3 × 3 mean, reprojected and encoded as Terrain-RGB. Local sampling is approximately 31 m; contours do not imply survey accuracy.
The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30 - Cuenca regional orthophoto (2010)
- 2010
Fuente: Portal de Datos Abiertos del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del cantón Cuenca
CC BY-NC 2.0
Aerial photography: 2010. New municipal cells downloaded: 2026-10-09. Older retained mosaics have no recorded download date.
Derived municipal orthophoto mosaic: reprojected, resampled and tiled for display. Noncommercial reuse with attribution under the linked licence.
El Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del cantón Cuenca no es responsable por la interpretación y aplicación de la información.
Portal terms - ESA WorldCover Sentinel-2 composite
- 2021
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
CC BY 4.0 - Copernicus Sentinel-2
- 2025 Q1–2026 Q2
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025–2026, processed through the Copernicus Data Space Sentinel Hub Process API.
Copernicus Sentinel data licence
Portal terms - Cuenca · aerial + satellite imagery
- 2010 · 2021 · 2025–2026
Mixed source terms; noncommercial reuse while municipal aerial imagery is included
Municipal aerial: 2010; WorldCover satellite: 2021; Cajas Sentinel-2: 2025 Q1–2026 Q2.
Cropped to the terrain box, reprojected, resampled and mosaicked with valid source masks; WEBP display tiles. Satellite detail is about 10 m. Coverage is 99.8076%; remaining gaps are transparent. Clouds and source/date boundaries may remain.
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About these guides
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