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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Cuenca

2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Cuenca.

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UNESCO sites in Cuenca

  • Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de CuencaCultural · 1999 · 1 km

    Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca is set in a valley surrounded by the Andean mountains in the south of Ecuador. This inland colonial town (entroterra ), now the country's third city, was founded in 1557 on the rigorous pl…

  • Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road SystemCultural · 2014 · 18 km

    This site is an extensive Inca communication, trade and defence network of roads covering 30,000 km. Constructed by the Incas over several centuries and partly based on pre-Inca infrastructure, this extraordinary network…

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