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Cuenca

[ kweng-kah ]

noun

  1. a city in SW Ecuador.


Cuenca

/ ˈɱŋ첹 /

noun

  1. a city in SW Ecuador: university (1868). Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
  2. a town in central Spain: prosperous in the Middle Ages for its silver and textile industries. Pop: 47 201 (2003 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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When Salon spoke with microbiologist Luis Andrés Yarzábal, an associate professor at the Universidad Católica de Cuenca in Ecuador, he was indeed careful to avoid sensationalizing the problem.

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Mexican actress-singer Florencia Cuenca will co-lead in the role of Estela, the eldest daughter of the García family.

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Luis Andrés Yarzábal, a microbiologist at the Universidad Católica de Cuenca in Ecuador, described the surprising findings of Russian scientists studying ice cores extracted from pristine glaciers in Antarctica in the 1980s.

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Villarreal's Spanish defender Jorge Cuenca, 24, is set to join Fulham.

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On Tuesday newspapers around Ecuador published schedules for power cuts in cities that included Quito, Cuenca and Guayaquil, where most homes and many businesses were left without power for three hours.

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