Cuenca news today, written for expats

Mall del Alto's administrator told El Mercurio the new center averaged 45,000 visitors during its first four days and saw about 10,000 vehicles enter. EMOV also sanctioned 96 drivers for bad parking around Mall del Alto and Mall del Rio.

CEBCI's Tangled - El Musical has two public performances today, May 28, at Teatro Pumapungo: 15:00 and 19:00. El Mercurio reports tickets cost $15 and are available through Meet2Go.

The Cuenca Symphony Orchestra will perform Saturday, May 30, at 20:00 at Teatro Casa de la Cultura. The program includes Coleridge-Taylor, Vaughan Williams and Brahms, with tubist Scott Roeder and guest conductor Norman Gamboa.

El Mercurio reports Ecuador's National Registration process for public higher education opens June 2 and runs through June 6. It is mandatory for applicants to public universities, polytechnic schools, technological institutes and higher conservatories.

El Mercurio reports that a forest fire near Laguna Larga in Cajas was still active at midday May 27. ETAPA sent nine park rangers with Cuenca firefighters and is asking people to avoid campfires, burns, cigarette butts and trash in the high Cajas zones.

After a LATAM flight could not complete its Cuenca landing on May 26 and continued to Guayaquil, Mayor Cristian Zamora said Cuenca inevitably needs a larger, safer airport outside the city center. Studies for a possible Tarqui site are expected to continue through 2027.