Cuenca Canton

Cuenca Canton
—  Canton  —
Cajas National Park, Cuenca Canton
Location of Azuay Province in Ecuador.
Cantons of Azuay Province
Coordinates: 2°54′S 78°59′W / 2.9°S 78.983°W / -2.9; -78.983
Country	Ecuador
Province	Azuay Province
Capital	Cuenca
Population (2010)[1]
- Total	712,127
Time zone	UTC -5

Cuenca Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Azuay Province. Its capital is the town of Cuenca. During the census of 2001 the canton had 417,632 inhabitants ^[2] and in 2010 it had 712,127 inhabitants.^[1]

Division

The canton is divided into parishes.^[3] The urban sector of the city of Cuenca is formed by the following 15 parishes:

Urban parishes
	1. San Sebastián	10. Huayna Capac
	2. El Batán	11. Hermano Miguel
	3. Yanuncay	12. El Vecino
	4. Bellavista	13. Totoracocha
	5. Gill Ramírez Dávalos	14. Monay
	6. El Sagrario	15. Machángara
	7. San Blas
	8. Cañaribamba
	9. Sucre

The rural territory of the canton is divided into 21 parishes:

Rural parishes
	1. Molleturo	12. Ricaurte
	2. Chaucha	13. Urban parishes
	3. Sayausí	14. Paccha
	4. Chiquintad	15. Nulti
	5. Checa (or Jidcay)	16. Turi
	6. San Joaquín	17. El Valle
	7. Baños	18. Santa Ana
	8. Sinincay	19. Tarqui
	9. Octavio Cordero Palacios (or Santa Rosa)	20. Victoria del Portete (or Irquis)
	10. Sidcay	21. Cumbe
	11. Llacao	22. Quingeo

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Somos 14.483.499 de ecuatorianas y ecuatorianos, según el censo (Spanish)
2. ^ Cantons of Ecuador at statoids.com
3. ^ Political Division of Cuenca Canton (Spanish), retrieved on August 31, 2011