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The city is named Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca in honor of the city of Cuenca in Spain, birthplace of the Spanish viceroy of Peru Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, who was the one who ordered the Spanish Gil Ramírez Dávalos to found the city and the fact that this place, in its geographical features, is very similar to the Spanish city.
ETAPA (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones, Agua Potable, Alcantarillado y saneamiento de Cuenca) is a public utilities company owned and operated by the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. The company provides landline telephone, internet, water, and sewage services within the canton of Cuenca. [1]
The Seminary (Seminario), a rectangular building stretching from Plaza de la Merced to Mangana Square, was established under the rule of José Flores y Osorio, the Bishop of Cuenca (1738–1759), and built by Vicente Sevill, around 1745. The Baroque façade at Plaza de la Merced was erected in 1748.
The University of Cuenca (Spanish: Universidad de Cuenca) is an Ecuadorian university located in Cuenca. University of Cuenca is the principal university of Azuay Province . The university was officially founded in 1867, [ 2 ] being the first university on Cuenca .
Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. ISSN 0048-7694. Portela Sandoval, Francisco José (2002). "El eco del Escorial en la arquitectura española de los siglos XIX y XX" (PDF). El Monasterio del Escorial y la arquitectura: Actas del simposium, 8/11-IX-2002, 2002, ISBN 84-89942-28-5, págs. 333-372.
The museum has ethnographic collections that include traditional costumes, objects representative of the beliefs and rites of the peoples of Ecuador. The museum has a room about baroque art dating from the 18th century. [3] The museum has reconstructions of Afro-Ecuadorian houses from the province of Esmeraldas.