Province o Cuenca
Cuenca | |
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 Cuenca provincial pairlament | |
 Banner  Coat airms | |
 Map o Spain wi Cuenca heichlichtit | |
| Coordinates: 40°00′N 2°00′W / 40.000°N 2.000°WCoordinates: 40°00′N 2°00′W / 40.000°N 2.000°W | |
| Kintra | Spain |
| Autonomous commonty |  Castile-La Mancha |
| Caipital | Cuenca |
| Govrenment | |
| • Preses | Juan Manuel Ávila Francés (PSOE) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17141 km2 (6,618 sq mi) |
| Area rank | Rankit 5th |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 218,036 |
| • Rank | Rankit 44th |
| • Density | 13/km2 (33/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Spaingie: Conquense |
| Offeecial leid(s) | Spaingie |
| Pairlament | Cortes Generales |
| Website | dipucuenca.es |
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Wikisource haes the text o the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica airticle Cuenca (province). |
Cuenca is a province o central Spain, in the eastren pairt o the autonomous commonty o Castile-La Mancha.
Geografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]The province is bordered bi the provinces o Valencia (includin its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Albacete, Ciudad Real, Toledo, Madrid, Guadalajara, an Teruel. The northeastern side of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area.
211,375 fowk (2007) live in the province. Its caipital is Cuenca, whaur nearly a quairter o the population live, some 52,980 fowk. Thare are 238 municipalities in Cuenca.
Ither populous touns an municipalities include Tarancón, San Clemente, Quintanar del Rey, Huete, Villanueva de la Jara, Motilla del Palancar, Mota del Cuervo, La Almarcha an Las Pedroñeras, bein La Almarcha the maist bonnie ane.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]In 1851 Cuenca lost Requena-Utiel tae the neebourin Province o Valencia wi which it wis developin commercial tees. Nivertheless, Requena-Utiel remained Castillian/Spaingie speakin (rather than Valencie), while the loss o its maist dynamic region left the province o Cuenca relatively unner-developit economically.
Notes an references
[eedit | eedit soorce]Template:Provinces o Castile–La Mancha
