Azuay-Cuenca

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Cuenca is located in the southern part of the Ecuadorian Andean Cordillera. Its historic center was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. It's called the Athens of Ecuador for its majestic architecture, its cultural diversity, its contribution to the arts, sciences and letters Ecuadorian and being the birthplace of many famous people of Ecuadorian society. Handmade hats are a specialty in Ecuador and sold to tourists from around the world who visit Cuenca. In the city center there are important historical remains: museums and old churches (such as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, one of the largest and most beautiful of America, and others dating from the XVI and XVII), cobbled streets and houses with facades Republican who point out the various European influences with characteristic balconies and carved ceilings and other artistically painted forged brass. The city is also known as the "Andean Basin" or the "Athens of Ecuador" for being the birthplace of poets and illustrious men who have made up the name of this city, as Miguel Velez, Gaspar Sangurima, Santo Hermano Miguel , Honorato Vasquez, Remigio Crespo Toral, among other characters as Garaicoa Abdon Calderon, Antonio Borrero. In Cuenca there are numerous cultural organizations. It also boasts a wide variety of traditional and cultural programs throughout the year as the feast of Corpus Christi is held in June and the Feast of All Souls to be held in Ecuador nationwide on November 2nd and makes one festival with festivities November 3 during the holiday commemorating the independence, which is performed in a contest sponsored by the municipality in which you choose to "Chola Cuenca" the year that same chair the Foundation name, organization that promotes various social projects in rural parishes. Another great holiday tradition is the burden of the Child Flyer Pass is performed on 24 December in the streets of the historic center (although many people also performed during the course of the months of December and January, sometimes coming up in February ), in which children dressed as characters from the Bible, pastors, overseers, Cholas, Gypsies, and others, through the streets, organized by families, school communities, neighborhoods, churches and religious communities.