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Rare night for Cuenca's rock scene. Ruta del Rock celebrates its three-year anniversary tonight with 'El Ritual' at Hacienda San Diego — Santamuerte headlines with their new album, plus As de Picas, Black Purple, and Boca de Serpiente from Colombia. 8 PM, $20.

Cuenca turns 469 this week and the city is throwing a proper party. Orchid shows, symphony concerts, a children's parade, a barter festival, Andres Cepeda live, free pet vaccinations, and the big Foundation Day ceremony on Sunday. Here's everything happening, day by day.

Cuenca's iconic Escalinata -- the staircase connecting Centro Historico to El Ejido -- reopens April 9 after months of renovation. New andesite stone, LED-lit handrails, accessibility features, and renovated restrooms. Here's what's changed.

Heavy rains slammed the Cuenca-Machala highway at km 58, triggering landslides that blocked the road for three consecutive days by March 13. Canada issued a travel advisory, coastal seafood and produce deliveries to Cuenca markets were disrupted, and rainy season is far from over.

Five families in Barabón remain out of their homes after the Yanuncay River's worst flooding in 20+ years on March 12. An adobe house was destroyed, a bridge collapsed, and the road to Soldados has multiple damaged sections. The city is moving 4,000 cubic meters of stone for riverbank reinforcement.

The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca and local rock band Sobrepeso are performing a symphonic Pink Floyd tribute tonight at Teatro Casa de la Cultura. Tickets are $22-32, but the upper level is already sold out.

Five-time Latin Grammy winner Andrés Cepeda brings his 'Nuestra Vida en Canciones' tour to Coliseo Jefferson Pérez on April 11. Tickets run $40-$120 via TicketShow. Ecuadorian legend Sergio Sacoto opens.

It's bad out there. Both the Cuenca-Girón-Pasaje and Cuenca-Molleturo highways are closed from landslides. The Tomebamba and Tarqui rivers are on pre-alert. A woman in Camilo Ponce Enríquez died in a landslide Tuesday night. Here's the full road map of what's open, what's closed, and how to stay safe.

After a subsidence knocked out the Sulupali bridge over the Río Rircay on February 23, seven communities south of Cuenca decided they couldn't wait for the government's $2.1 million estimate. So they're building their own bridge with cement, river rock, and iron salvaged from a 2012 collapse. Cost: $35,000. Raised so far: $962.