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Cuenca is a city of 400,000 people, with more than 50 Catholic churches. Ecuador is a highly religious (Catholic) country. Here are a few images from churches we have seen while traveling around the country.

The "Old Church" on Parque Calerdon is now a museum

Santo Domingo is lit up at night until roughly 10PM

The interior of Santo Domingo Iglesia is huge

The domes of the "New Cathedral" on Parque Calderon are usually shown on brochures advertising Cuenca

Santo Domingo at night, as seen from a rooftop on Parque Calderon

The "New Cathedral", as seen at night from a rooftop across the street

Quito had an art exhibition in the town center, in front of their main church

San Francisco church sits on the main square in old town Quito

A procession takes a statue of Jesus into Iglesia San Francisco in Quito

The old town section of Quito has an active pedestrian night life

I came across this procession taking the Jesus statue from Iglesia San Francisco to a different church in Quito

As the procession advanced down the street, people threw flower petals on the statue of Jesus.

The procession was led by a small brass band

Cathedral de Banos was lit up with Christmas decorations

Iglesia del Cenaculo in Cuenca