Cuenca — tid och väder
Cuenca är en stad i Ecuador, i tidszonen America/Guayaquil. Den här sidan visar aktuell lokal tid i Cuenca och vädret just nu: temperatur, nederbörd och vindhastighet.
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Om tiden i Cuenca
Lokal tid i Cuenca baseras på tidszonen America/Guayaquil. Sommartid, om den gäller i regionen, räknas in automatiskt. Aktuell skillnad mot universell tid (UTC) visas bredvid klockan. Tiden på den här sidan uppdateras varje sekund och är synkroniserad med din enhets klocka.
Om landet och staden
Stadens befolkning≈ 330 000 inv.
Landets språkSpanish is the official language; Kichwa and Shuar have status as official languages of intercultural relations; English is used in tourism.
ValutaUnited States dollar (national currency since 2000) ($, USD)
Ecuador is a compact country on the equator with four contrasting worlds: the Andes, the Amazon, the Pacific coast and the Galápagos Islands.
Mer om landet: Ecuador →Vad man kan se i Cuenca
Sevärdheter och historiska platser
- The New Cathedral (Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción), with its three blue-tiled domes, is the symbol of Cuenca.
- El Barranco bridge and walk runs along the Tomebamba river, lined with whitewashed colonial houses on the cliff.
- Pumapungo Archaeological Park preserves the Inca ruins of the former northern capital of Tawantinsuyu.
- Cajas National Park, with mountain camelids, lakes and páramo landscapes, lies just 30 minutes from the city.
Museer
- Pumapungo Museum combines ethnography, pre-Columbian archaeology and a garden of Indigenous plants.
- The Museum of Modern Art (MMAC), in the former Casa Temperancia rehabilitation home, displays Ecuadorian artists' work.
- The Homero Ortega 'Panama hat' museum demonstrates the toquilla-straw weaving process right in Cuenca.
Var man kan umgås
- Hiking in Cajas National Park among lakes and the polylepis cloud-forest at 4,000 m.
- Trips to Gualaceo for its traditional market and Chordeleg for its silver-filigree workshops.
- Visit the Plaza de las Flores flower market beside the old convent and taste the local sugar-cane wine.
Lokal mat
Cuenca's pride is mote pillo with cheese, cuy asado (roast guinea pig) and hot canelazo on chilly Andean evenings.