**2.1 The town of Cuenca**

Cuenca is a Spanish town in the Castilla-La Mancha region, capital of the province of the same name. The town's mean altitude is 946 m above sea level (a.s.l.). The area *Noise Profile Categorization for Noise Mapping in Cities: The Case of Cuenca (Spain) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104396*

of the municipality is 911.06 km<sup>2</sup> , and the total population of the city is 54,898 inhabitants (year 2018) [15].

The town has two different areas: the old town and the new one. The first one is located in the high part of the town, bordered by rivers Júcar in the north and Huécar in the south. The new part of the town is located at the west-south of the old town towards north-south.

Cuenca has an important historical and architectural heritage and many museums in the old town, been considered World Heritage City since 1996.
