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Cuenca may refer to:

In Ecuador:
  • Cuenca, Ecuador
    Cuenca, Ecuador
    Cuenca is the capital of the Azuay Province. It is located in the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500 m above sea level...

    , capital of the Azuay Province
    Azuay Province
    Azuay is a province of Ecuador, created 25 June 1824. It encompasses an area of . Its capital is Cuenca. It is located in the south center of Ecuador in the highlands. Its mountains reach above sea level in the national park of El Cajas....

     and named in honor to the spanish city.
    • Cuenca basin (hydrology), the drainage basin
      Drainage basin
      A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

    • Cuenca basin (geology), a geologic structural basin

In the Philippines:
  • Cuenca, Batangas
    Cuenca, Batangas
    Cuenca is a 4th class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 28,581 people in 5,222 households....


In Spain:
  • Cuenca, Spain
    Cuenca, Spain
    -History:When the Iberian peninsula was part of the Roman Empire there were several important settlements in the province, such as Segóbriga, Ercávica and Gran Valeria...

    , the original city to receive this name, which is the capital of the province of Cuenca
  • Cuenca Province (Spain)
    • Cuenca (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
      Cuenca (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
      Cuenca is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales....

       the Spanish electoral district covering the province
  • Cuenca de Campos
    Cuenca de Campos
    Cuenca de Campos is a municipality in Valladolid ....

    , Valladolid

In the United States:
  • Cuenca, Spanish name for Joara
    Joara
    Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina. Joara is notable as a significant archaeological and historic site. It was a place of encounter in 1540 between the Mississippian people and the...

    , Native American settlement in modern-day North Carolina


Cuenca may also refer to:
  • Christina Cuenca
    Christina Cuenca
    Christina Cuenca is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Louisiana USA and competed at Miss USA.Cuenca, who comes from Arabi, Louisiana is an experienced pageant veteran who competed for five consecutive years before winning the crown, including placing second runner-up three times. Cuenca...

    , American beauty queen
  • Isaac Cuenca
    Isaac Cuenca
    Joan Isaac Cuenca López is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona as a right winger.-Football career:Cuenca joined FC Barcelona's La Masia in 2003, aged just 12...

    , (born 1991), Spanish footballer playing for Barcelona
    FC Barcelona
    Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

    .
  • Jake Cuenca
    Jake Cuenca
    Juan Carlos "Jake" Leveriza Cuenca is a Spanish-Filipino actor and model. He started as a GMA talent center artist, and later transferred to ABS-CBN's talent center, Star Magic.-Early life:...

     (born 1987), American-born Filipino actor