SANTA ANA DE LOS CUATRO RIOS DE CUENCA: what a name

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The flight from Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in San Cristobal island to Guayaquil went without any incidents. I spent one short nicht in Guayaquil and continued the next morning to Cuenca by bus, back to the heights of the south-american Andes. Cuenca is the shorter, most commonly used name of the city. It is Ecuador's third largest city and is located at 2.500 meters over the sea level. Cuenca was founded on April 12, 1557 as Spanish settlement by order of Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, then Viceroy of Peru who wanted the city named after his home town of Cuenca, Spain.