Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (commonly kent as Santa Cruz) is the caipital (alang wi Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), an seicont-maist muckle city o the Autonomous Community o the Canary Islands an the 21st maistmuckle city in Spain, wi a population o 222,417 in 2009. Santa Cruz is the seicont maistmuckle city an metropolitan area o the European Union ootside Europe. Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the caipital o the island o Tenerife an aa (maist populatit o archipelago an Spain) an caipital o the province o Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Locatit in northeastren airt o Tenerife, aboot 210 kilometres (130 mi) aff the northwastren coast o Africae athin the Atlantic Ocean. Atween the 1833 territorial diveesion o Spain an 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife wis the anely caipital o the Canary Islands, till 1927 when a decree ordered that the caipital o the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present. The port is o great importance an is the communications hub atween Europe, Africae an Americas, wi cruise ships arrivin frae mony naitions. The city is important for domestic an inter-island communications in the Canary Islands. Sister ceeties Aranda de Duero, Spain San Antonio, USA Santa Cruz, Californie, USA Atlanta, USA Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivie Caracas, Venezuela Cádiz, Spain Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nice, Fraunce Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba Guatemala Ceety, Guatemala Miami-Dade Coonty, Florida, USA Saunt Petersburg, Roushie Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic References