Ecuador's weather is quite consistent year-round, and we have a lot of sunlight, in part because it straddles the equator. Since Cuenca is 8,400 feet above sea level in the Andes mountains, most ...

Before the pandemic, “the expat community was mostly retirees seeking small apartments in the low $100,000s,” said Xavier Amoroso, owner of the HouseHuntEC agency in Cuenca. (Ecuador adopted ...

May 15, 2013— -- Nestled in the Andes Mountains is a kind of paradise that has lured thousands of Americans away from home. Cuenca, Ecuador, may be a place many people have never heard of ...

Cuenca is located in the Andes mountains and has a population of about 600,000 people. Their interview has been edited for length and clarity. Stephen: I heard about Cuenca, Ecuador, as a place to ...

Three Houses and a Lake in Southern Ecuador $720,000 . This 19th-century hacienda is in Susudel, Ecuador, a small town about 50 miles south of Cuenca, a city in the Andes Mountains whose many ...

Once Phillips made it to their rented house in Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador’s Andes mountains, he and Harrison, who had noticed a larger than normal amount of people buying up food at the ...

Cuenca's unique appeal. About 5,000 expats now live in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third largest city, says Tania Sarmiento, director of the Tourism for Cuenca Municipal Foundation.

Moving to Ecuador makes it affordable to retire near beaches, mountains and rainforests. ... Cuenca is home to one of the biggest and most established expat retiree communities in the world.