Cuenca

[ kweng-kah ]

noun

1. a city in SW Ecuador.

Cuenca

/ ˈkweŋka /

noun

1. a city in SW Ecuador: university (1868). Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
2. a town in central Spain: prosperous in the Middle Ages for its silver and textile industries. Pop: 47 201 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

In “Before the Fall,” by J.P. Cuenca, Rio is a faux paradise, its violence barely contained by “an armed peace.”

From The Daily Beast

Cuenca, Spain, taken by the French under Caulincourt, and given up to pillage.

From Project Gutenberg

The first who adventured was Alonso de Hojeda, a native of Cuenca.

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Contemporary with this was a case at Cuenca, which almost transcends belief.

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While this comedy was in progress in Cuenca, a similar one was performing in Madrid, in the highest social ranks.

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We chance to hear of eight cases in the auto of 1579 at Llerena and of five at Cuenca in 1585.

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