Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is a municipality, a parish and a city in the eastern part of the island of Madeira. It is the second most populous municipality, behind Funchal. The population in 2011 was 43,005, in an area of 81.50 km2.Photo: Koshelyev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: jad99, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Madeira Airport and Igreja de São Salvador.
Madeira Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Alberto-g-rovi, CC BY 3.0.
Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport — also known as Madeira Airport, Funchal Airport, and formerly Santa Catarina Airport — is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of Madeira.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Machico and Gaula.
Machico
Photo: Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Machico is the second biggest city in Madeira Island. Here you can find pedestrian tracks throughout the mountains, lovely beaches, and good restaurants.
Gaula
Suburb
Photo: Andretviveiros, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gaula is a Portuguese civil parish, in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 4,028, in an area of 6.95 km2. It is located 7 kilometres northeast of the island capital of Funchal.
Camacha
Village
Camacha is a parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz, on the southeastern part of Madeira Island. It is situated in the mountainous interior of the island, 3 km north of Caniço, 7 km northeast of Funchal and 6 km west of Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Madeira, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.6875° or 32° 41′ 15″ northLongitude
-16.7912° or 16° 47′ 28″ westPopulation
6,950Elevation
316 metres (1,037 feet)Open location code
8C45M6P5+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 5298507481OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8010680Wikidata ID
Q658823
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Santa Cruz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانتا كروز”
- Aragonese: “Santa Cruz”
- Asturian: “Santa Cruz”
- Basque: “Santa Cruz”
- Catalan: “Santa Cruz”
- Cebuano: “Santa Cruz”
- Chechen: “Санта-Круш”
- Chinese: “Santa Cruz”
- Chinese: “圣克鲁什”
- Chinese: “圣克鲁斯”
- Chinese: “聖克魯什”
- Czech: “Santa Cruz”
- Dutch: “Santa Cruz (Madeira)”
- Dutch: “Santa Cruz”
- Finnish: “Santa Cruz”
- French: “Santa Cruz”
- Georgian: “სანტა-კრუში”
- German: “Santa Cruz”
- Greek: “Σάντα Κρουζ”
- Hebrew: “סנטה קרוש”
- Hungarian: “Santa Cruz”
- Irish: “Santa Cruz”
- Italian: “Santa Cruz”
- Korean: “산타크루스”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Kruzas”
- Lombard: “Santa Cruz (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Santa Cruz”
- Mazanderani: “سانتا کروز، مادیرا”
- Mazanderani: “سانتا کروز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Cruz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Cruz”
- Norwegian: “Santa Cruz”
- Novial: “Santa Cruz, Madeira”
- Persian: “سانتا کروز، مادیرا”
- Persian: “سانتا کروز”
- Polish: “Santa Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Município de Santa Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Santa Cruz (Madeira)”
- Portuguese: “Santa Cruz”
- Russian: “Санта-Круш”
- Slovenian: “Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “Santa Cruz”
- Tatar: “Санта-Круш”
- Turkish: “Santa Cruz, Madeira”
- Turkish: “Santa Cruz”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Круж”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Круш”
- Urdu: “سانتا کروز، مادیعیرا”
- Urdu: “سانتا کروز”
- Vietnamese: “Santa Cruz, Madeira”
- Vietnamese: “Santa Cruz”
- Volapük: “Santa Cruz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Santa Cruz, Madeira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Santa Cruz”
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