The most beautiful city in Ecuador: Cuenca, Azuay Province
Cuenca (or Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca) is the capital of Azuay Province and is Ecuador's 3rd largest city. Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is known as the most European Ecuadorian city due to the abundance of Spanish colonial architecture. Cuenca is located in Ecuador's highlands at about 8,000 feet (2,500 meters) in elevation and is known for Panama hats (paja toquilla), the Barranco or Tomebamba River waterfront, and the abundance of colonial churches, including the Catedral Vieja (Old Cathedral) and the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception).
Some other nearby attractions that you will not want to miss include the Cajas National Park, the Girón Falls (el Chorro de Girón), the town of SigSig for Panama Hats, and the town of Chordeleg for handmade jewelry.
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AZOGUES - ECUADOR - 2017
Azogues, capital of the Cañar province, located in the south-central sierra region of Ecuador. With around 40.000 residents, it is a wonderful and breathtaking town. Azogues is situated at 2,518 meters above sea level, high in the Andes mountains and located at 30 km from Cuenca, Ecuador's third largest city . The city is mostly known for its Panama Hat industry. 40 km north of Azogues, you have the biggest and best preserved Inca ruins of Ecuador: Ingapirca. The most significant building is the Temple of the Sun, an elliptically shaped building constructed around a large rock.
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Cuenca Travel Guide - Ecuador Magnificent Experience
Cuenca Travel Guide - Ecuador Magnificent Experience
Cuenca is a vibrant colonial city in southern Ecuador, and the capital of Azuay Province. Cuenca lies in a valley at about 2,500m (8,200 ft), and is home to around 450,000 people. Its moderate climate makes it enjoyable year round.
After Quito, Cuenca is Ecuador’s most important and beautiful colonial city. But don’t say that to the locals, who insist that their laid-back culture, cleaner streets and more agreeable weather outclass the capital, hands down.
Dating from the 16th century, Cuenca’s historic center, a Unesco World Heritage Site with its trademark skyline of massive rotundas and soaring steeples, is a place time keeps forgetting: nuns march along cobblestone streets, kids in Catholic-school uniforms skip past historic churches, and old ladies spy on promenading lovers from their geranium-filled balconies. The city is the center of many craft traditions, including ceramics, metalwork and the internationally famous panama hat – and the nearby villages offer many more handicrafts besides.
Central Cuenca is easily walkable, and it is often faster than taking a cab through the narrow traffic-jammed lanes. Cabs are readily available and charge $2-3 ($1 more at night) per trip. All yellow taxis are required to use taxi-meters. City buses are also fairly easy to figure out. Most bus stops are marked. The cost is $0.30 per ride. Since April 2018 the only way to pay the fare is with the 'movilízate' card, which costs $1.75. You need to charge it before entering the bus. Cuenca is a very bike-friendly city.
Cuenca is a city known for its textile making, along with furniture and other crafts like hats and shoes. They also export many flowers to places such as the United States and countries in Europe. The hats that they are well known for making are straw hats. The tourism industry is big as well in addition with the main university there, “La Universidad de Cuenca”. Cuenca has many cathedrals there that are a part of the sightseeing as well as other national parks.
Buy some flowers at the flower market on Calle Sucre across from the new cathedral. Continue on about a block from there to get to the clothing and artisan market where one can also find knit crafts from Otavalo. Lovely handmade ruanas, sweaters, hats, mittens, and finger puppets are also available here.
Cuenca Canton contains the following parishes:
Baños
Chaucha
Checa (Jidcay)
Chiquintad
Cumbe
Llacao
Molleturo
Nulti
Octavio Cordero Palacios (Santa Rosa)
Paccha
Quingeo
Ricaurte
San Joaquín
Santa Ana
Sayausi
Sidcay
Sinincay
Tarqui
Turi
Valle
Victoria del Portete (Irquis)
Most tourists visit the historic area, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, between the river Tomebamba and the street Gran Colombia to the north, General Torres to the west, and Hermano Miguel to the east. This area's compactness, grid-like layout, and numerous readily identifiable monuments make it easy to navigate. Outside this area the city can be confusing, as there are dozens of narrow colonial streets with similar buildings.
Major fiestas of Cuenca come at the time of the Mass of Children that is carried out the day of the Arrival of Kings (January 6 - Epiphany Day), or in the commemoration of the independence of the city (November 3), during which processions, cultural acts and dances are organized. The nearby Cañar plantation (in the county of the same name) features the biggest Inca ruins in Ecuador.
A lot to see in Cuenca such as :
New Cathedral of Cuenca
El Cajas National Park
Old Cathedral of Cuenca
Avenida Mirador de Turi
Museo Pumapungo
Calderón Park
Amaru Zoológico Bioparque
Inca Ruins
Museo de las Madres Conceptas
Puente Roto
Pumapungo
Museo Remigio Crespo Toral
Homero Ortega Hats
Mercado 10 de Agosto
El Paraíso Park
Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno
Las Conceptas
Ruinas de Pumapungo
Prohibido Centro Cultural
Museo de las Culturas Aborigenes
Santo Domingo
Eduardo Vega Galeria/Taller
San Blas Church
Iglesia del Carmen de la Asuncion
Estancia Rosario
De Todos Los Santos
Plaza de las Flores
Church of Turi
Parque Arqueológico Pumapungo
CIDAP
San Blas Park
El Museo de Esqueletologia
Iglesia de San Alfonso
Thermal SPA Novaqua Hostería Durán
San Sebastian Park
Economuseo Municipal Casa del Sombrero
Cuenca Canopy
Fundación Bienal de Cuenca
El Columpio De Turi
Cupulas
Miraflores Park
Iglesia de Todos Santos
Orquideario
Plaza de San Francisco
Cruz Del Vado
Ruinas de Todos Santos
( Cuenca - Ecuador ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Cuenca . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cuenca - Ecuador
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VLOG_007: ADVENTURE TO SARDINAYACU IN SANGAY NATIONAL PARK - ECUADOR
The Sangay National Park is the third largest in surface within continental Ecuador. It covers 4 provinces (Tungurahua, Chimborazo, Morona Santiago and Cañar). This video represents a 3-day expedition made in the central-eastern area of the Sangay National Park, within the lake complex of Sardinayacu. Quilico Drones traveled to the city of Macas, where officials of this protected area provided the support to travel the stretch that separates the entrance to the park, in the Nueva Alianza refuge and the vicinity of the Cormorán lake, the third of five lagoons in Sardinayacu.
There are no words to describe so much abundance of life in a unique state of conservation with a landscape of jungles and mountains that make Sardinayacu a place of contemplation, admiration and respect for nature.
To the west of Cormorán camping site, the Sangay volcano rises majestically. It is a stratovolcano that rises in the middle of the Paramo of the Cordillera Real. With an altitude of 5,230 meters above sea level (17.160 FASL) it is currently the most active volcano in the area (emission of gases, pyroclastic flows, ash and lava) in Ecuador and it is known that erupted for the last time in 1628, year from which it remains in constant activity.
The Sangay volcano is an ode to nature, it is a giver of life and a modifier of it. Their insides keep secrets unveiled, because their inaccessibility still preserves pristine sites that hopefully persevere forever.
Our gratitude to Paúl Velín S., Víctor León, to the Park rangers staff that accompanied the expedition and to Bio. Jorge Brito for his invaluable scientific contributions and information of the protected area.
Featuring scenes from both Sardinayacu lake complex and Sangay volcano in Ecuador. Enjoy and feel free to leave any questions in the comment section below.
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• Close up Sangay volcano shots were taken with a Nikon Coolpix P900 (without tripod).
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10 Mysterious Ruins of Ancient Cities
Top 10 most mysterious places specifically lost cities found underwater and in the jungle built by ancient civilizations in history,
5 Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt
Heracleion, also known as Thonis, was an ancient Egyptian city, located about 32 kilometers northeast of Alexandria. It used to be a very important city near the end of the Age of Pharaohs, when it served as Egypt’s main international port, a bustling hub of trade and tax collection. Heracleion was a canal city, built on several adjoining islands in the delta of the river Nile. It has been mentioned by a few Ancient Greek historians, and legends place its origins somewhere around the 12th century BC. It is variously believed that Thonis is where Paris and Helen of Troy stopped to seek refuge while on the run from king Menelaus, and also that this was the place where Heracles first landed when coming to Africa (hence the alternate name). The city is believed to have sunk somewhere around the end of the second century BC. What has been excavated so far lies in the Abu Qir Bay, about 2.5 kilometers off the coast, under 10 meters of water and sand.
4 Shisr, Oman
This city is variously known as Ubar, Wabar and Iram (as in, Iram of the Pillars, a name found in the Quran which might refer to an actual city, a larger area or even a tribe), but it is more romantically referred to as “The Atlantis of the Sands.” It is located in Shisr, in Oman. The great discovery was made by a team of archaeologists led by Nicholas Clapp, and including Sir Ranulph Fiennes among its members. It was publicized in the New York Times back in February 1992, and since then, opinions are still harshly divided as to what the true origin of the excavation is, and whether it is truly the mythical Atlantis of the desert. Teams have discovered artifacts from Greece, Rome and Persia, which suggests that these ancient civilizations may have met and traded in this desert outpost. There is a fence and guards around the excavation site, but adventurers can schedule an excursion from Salalah.
3 Caracol, Belize
This is an enormous archaeological site of the ancient Mayas, covering twice the area of the modern Belize City, standing at an altitude of 500 meters on the Vaca Plateau. Its location has been renamed as the Cayo District of Belize following the discovery of the ruins. Funnily enough, the name Caracol means “spiral-shaped” (referring to the road to the ruins), but also “snail shell”: local tour guides joke about enormous snail populations onsite, and researchers often refer to it as “that one place with all the snails”. Its original name (discovered on a glyph) was most likely “Three-Hills Water” or “Three Hills Lord”. It was one of the most important regional political centers of the Maya Lowlands, and its buildings are set in distinct architectural groups, such as the Acropolis, The Plazas, the Ballroom etc.
2 Ingapirca, Ecuador
Also called Inkapirka, which literally means “the Inca’s Wall”. The local town in Cañar Province has been named after this archeological site. These are the largest Incan ruins in Ecuador, and their most significant feature is the Temple of the Sun, built in a huge ellipse around a large piece of rock. Its original inhabitants were actually the Cañari indigenous people, and the Incas came later on, when their empire started expanding into the southern reaches of Ecuador. The natives, however, proved difficult to conquer, and the matter was settled by a political marriage between the Cañari princess and the Inca Túpac Yupanqui. The architecture and discovered artifacts testify to the divided culture: the Incas and the Cañari both kept their own customs, and this is evident from the remains of festivals and ritual celebrations scattered through the temple complex. It’s worth noting that the temple was built in the distinctive Inca way (without any mortar, the stones were individually chiseled to fit perfectly together).
1 Ciudad Perdida, Colombia’s Sierra Nevada
Ciudad Perida means “Lost City” in Spanish, and the name is very fitting, because most of the ruins are still inaccessible, devoured by the forest. The archeological location is also known as Teyuna and Buritaca, and has been dated to around 800 BC, which places it some 650 years earlier on the timeline than the famous Machu Picchu. It was discovered by a group of local treasure looters in 1972. Archeologists reached it four years later and completed its reconstruction by 1982. The local tribes believe it was the center of a network of settlements inhabited by their ancestors, the Tairona, and have been visiting the site regularly before its discovery, but kept it secret. It has been abandoned during the Spanish Conquest, but researchers believe it was a home to some 2,000 – 8,000 people in its time. Nowadays, it is a very popular hikers’ destination.
Yunguilla, Cuenca, Ecuador 2018 | Jubones River-Real Estate-Parque Xtremo | Ecuador by Drone 06
The Yunguilla Valley, near Cuenca, Ecuador, is known for its tropical climate and is a popular vacation and tourism destination. In episode 6 of Ecuador by Drone, I show the Yunguilla Valley, the Jubones River, “Parque Xtremo” (an amusement park for extreme sports and outdoor concert venue) and of course some of the most luxurious and high-end real estate in the area.
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Alpujarra Mountains - Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands
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- Málaga, Costa del Sol, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands
- Bubion, Granada Province, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands
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- Alpujarra Mountains in Andalusia by Modernnomad67 from a blog titled Costa Del Sol, Spain, September 26, 2007
- Alpujarra Mountains near Granada by Modernnomad67 from a blog titled Costa Del Sol, Spain, September 26, 2007
- Alpujarra mountains by Richardmark from a blog titled Horse Riding Holiday in the Spanish Mountains