Santa Cruz de Tenerife (esp)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife ranks 1,303rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dartford, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, and Sochi. Memorable people born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife include Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Luis Molowny, and Àngel Guimerà. Memorable people who died in Santa Cruz de Tenerife include Ernesto Lecuona, Sabin Berthelot, and Lilian Gibbs. Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been the birth place of many soccer players and writers and the death place of many biologists and composers. Santa Cruz de Tenerife is located in Spain.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz, is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and one of the capitals of the Canary Islands, along with Las Palmas. Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its administrative limits. The urban zone of Santa Cruz extends beyond the city limits with a population of 507,306 and 538,000 within urban area. It is the second largest city in the Canary Islands and the main city on the island of Tenerife, with nearly half of the island's population living in or around it. Read more on Wikipedia