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Ecuador to import 3.36 million barrels of diesel from Singapore

Petroecuador will import 3.36 million barrels of premium diesel from the Singapore-based firm Trafigura Pte. Ltd. Trafigura was the winner of an international competition that Petroecuador says involved 45 companies. This was reported yesterday in a statement by the public oil company of Ecuador, that said that with this import, it will be able to […]

Take a hike

Last week we published a story about the Municipality’s new “Guía caminANTES,” or “Walkers Guide,” that lays out in detail, 16 different hikes—ranging from low difficulty to high difficulty—that one can take around the Cuenca area. This new guide offers a chance to see Cuenca in a different way. El Tiempo columnist Pablo Osorio Guerrero […]

Cuenca to build three more market areas under 2020 budget plan

Decongesting and reorganizing the increase in informal sales in the city in a planned manner, is the main objective of the construction of three markets in Cuenca where more than 1,000 autonomous merchants will be relocated. These spaces are included in the planning and budget of the Municipality of Cuenca for 2020, according to Patricio […]

CRIME AND ACCIDENT REPORT

Cuenca and National Criminal Activity (Challuabamba) Police are continuing to investigative the circumstances of the death of an American citizen. The death of the Nancy T., a foreign citizen, 79, occurred in a private urbanization located in the Challuabamba Hills, east of Cuenca. Jaime Ruales, subrogant commander of the Azuay Police, reported that the death […]

Climate change threatens the frogs of the Ecuadorian Chocó

Climate change, one of the main environmental problems today, places the amphibians of the Ecuadorian Chocó, especially frogs, even more vulnerable, according to a statement from the Jocotoco Foundation. Amphibians, being ectotherms (they depend on the heat of the environment instead of producing it internally), can be greatly affected by varying weather conditions. A scientific study […]

Agriculture and Livestock unaffected by Sangay ash fall

The Directorate of Risks and Insurance of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), issued a statement this week indicating that no agricultural or livestock losses have been reported after last week’s fall of ash in the Austro region of the country. In Cañar, most of the ash fall was slight—it did not have a […]

ETAPA begins critical view of projects in its 2020 budget

  The Telecommunications, Drinking Water and Sewerage Company (ETAPA), is reviewing its budget for 2020 to examine what services it will continue and which one it may cut. The hope is that with changes, it can resolve the economic crisis that is currently going through. The company—the largest of the Municipality of Cuenca’s eight companies—says […]

Museum Remigio Crespo Toral de Cuenca presents “100 Years in Search of a Millenary Past”

Published on December 27, 2019

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn A total of 87 archaeological pieces from the reserve of the Municipal Museum Remigio Crespo Toral de Cuenca, were chosen for a sample exhibit called “100 Years in Search of a Millenary Past.”The exhibit will be open until March 2020. They pieces are elaborate objects in ceramics, bone, stone and metal. […]

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