One day in Cuenca, Ecuador
A day through Cuenca’s best-known sights that lie close together: New Cathedral of Cuenca, Old Cathedral of Cuenca and Museo Pumapungo. 3 stops, about 1.3 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- New Cathedral of CuencaCathedral · On the map
- Old Cathedral of CuencaMuseum · 0.1 km on from New Cathedral of Cuenca · On the map
- Museo PumapungoMuseum · 1.2 km on from Old Cathedral of Cuenca · On the map
3 stops, 1.8 km on foot along the streets: about 21 min of walking.
More for Cuenca
- Things to do in Cuenca, Ecuador · 4 places to see, led by El Cajas National Park and New Cathedral of Cuenca
Photo credits
- New Cathedral of Cuenca: Berposen, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Old Cathedral of Cuenca: Ekem, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Pumapungo: Agencia de Noticias ANDES, CC BY-SA 2.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.