News on Cuenca

Uruguay President

2010-03-27T03:33:03Z

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wave as she arrives to the Legislative Palace to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Uruguay's President Jose Mujica in Montevideo, Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Andres Montevideo, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. Uruguayans will choose their next leader Sunday in a runoff between Jose Mujica presidential candidate of the ruling party Frente Amplio and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party. (AP Photo/Andres Cuenca, Ecuador, on 26 April 2009. Almost ten millions of voters are electing the president, members of the congress, majors and town councils

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An indigenous woman casts her ballot

2010-04-09T10:09:55Z

An indigenous woman casts her ballot during Ecuadorean national elections in Cuenca, Ecuador, on 26 April 2009. Almost ten millions of voters are electing the president, members of the congress, majors and town councils

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Three Cities in Ecuador

2010-04-09T19:00:17Z

Dec 31, 1998 - Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador - People walk in front of an old building. The dominant features of the city's geography are also the source of its name: the four rivers of Cuenca, the Tomebamba, Yanuncay, Tarqui and Machangara. These four rivers are part of the Amazon river watershed. Cuenca (meaning a basin caused by a confluence of rivers)...