Welcome to Ecuador and especially to Cuenca!  We who live in Cuenca believe this is truly a magical place that we call home.  From its cobblestone streets to the thriving downtown shops in stunning colonial buildings to the boundaries defined by beautiful, rushing mountain rivers from which came its formal name of Santa Ana de Los Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca (Santa Ana of the four rivers of Cuenca).  From its genteel residents to the value Cuenca culture places on ethnicity, art and education, Cuenca is truly a glorious and civil world unto its own.