Province o Cuenca

Cuenca is a province o central Spain, in the eastren pairt o the autonomous commonty o Castile-La Mancha.

Cuenca
Province
Cuenca provincial pairlament
Banner Coat airms
Map o Spain wi Cuenca heichlichtit
Coordinates: 40°00′N 2°00′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

Geografie

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.

Cuenca Cathedra (built frae 1182 tae 1270), locatit in Cuenca, Spain

History

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.