Province of Cuenca

The province is bordered by the provinces of Valencia (including its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Albacete, Ciudad Real, Toledo, Madrid, Guadalajara, and Teruel. The northeastern side of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area. 211,375 people (2007) live in the province. Its capital is Cuenca, where nearly a quarter of the population live, some 52,980 people. There are 238 municipalities in Cuenca. Other populous towns and municipalities include Tarancón, San Clemente, Quintanar del Rey, Huete, Villanueva de la Jara, Motilla del Palancar, Mota del Cuervo, La Almarcha, and Las Pedroñeras. . ==History==

In 1851, Cuenca lost Requena-Utiel to the neighbouring Valencia Province, with which it was developing commercial ties. Nevertheless, Requena-Utiel remained Spanish-speaking (rather than Catalan), while the loss of its most dynamic region left the province of Cuenca relatively underdeveloped economically. Population development The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:350 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:50 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:10 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:239 text:238,991 bar:1887 from:0 till:246 text:245,699 bar:1900 from:0 till:251 text:250,755 bar:1910 from:0 till:272 text:271,748 bar:1920 from:0 till:288 text:287,507 bar:1930 from:0 till:315 text:314,633 bar:1940 from:0 till:341 text:340,549 bar:1950 from:0 till:344 text:344,033 bar:1960 from:0 till:329 text:328,554 bar:1970 from:0 till:252 text:251,619 bar:1980 from:0 till:216 text:215,975 bar:1990 from:0 till:205 text:205,198 bar:2000 from:0 till:200 text:200,346 bar:2010 from:0 till:215 text:215,165 bar:2020 from:0 till:196 text:196,139 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE" == See also ==