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For the city, see Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city and a municipality on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the capital of the island, the second most populous in the Canary Islands, and the 21st largest city in Spain....
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a province of Spain
Provinces of Spain

In addition to its Autonomous Communities, Spain is divided into fifty provinces.Formerly of greater importance, since the arrival of the Autonomous communities of Spain the provinces have had fewer powers....
, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community
Autonomous communities of Spain

The Autonomous Community is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978....
 of the Canary Islands
Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union....
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 style="font-size: larger;" | Province of Spain

Province shown in green
Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city and a municipality on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the capital of the island, the second most populous in the Canary Islands, and the 21st largest city in Spain....
Autonomous community Canarias
Official language Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
Area
- Total 3381 kmē
- Rank 46th
- % 0.67%
Population
- Total 956.352
- Rank 14th
- % 2.17%
- Density 282,86 km-2
Postal Code 38
Parliament
- Congress 7
- Senate 6


For the city, see Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city and a municipality on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the capital of the island, the second most populous in the Canary Islands, and the 21st largest city in Spain....
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a province of Spain
Provinces of Spain

In addition to its Autonomous Communities, Spain is divided into fifty provinces.Formerly of greater importance, since the arrival of the Autonomous communities of Spain the provinces have had fewer powers....
, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community
Autonomous communities of Spain

The Autonomous Community is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978....
 of the Canary Islands
Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union....
. It consists of about half of the Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
 archipelago, including the islands of Tenerife
Tenerife

Tenerife, a Spain island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Tenerife has an area of 2034.38 square kilometers, and 886,033 inhabitants, which make it the most populated island of the Canary Islands and Spain....
, La Gomera
La Gomera

La Gomera is the second-smallest of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. It is located at ....
, El Hierro
El Hierro

El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano , is a Spain island. It is the smallest and furthest south and west of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa....
, and La Palma
La Palma

Isla de La Palma , is a Spain volcanic ocean island. It is one of the seven major Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off of the west coast of Africa....
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Its capital is the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city and a municipality on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the capital of the island, the second most populous in the Canary Islands, and the 21st largest city in Spain....
, on the island of Tenerife. Of the 971,647 people (2006) who live in the province, 24% live in the capital. There are 53 municipalities in the province; see List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

This is a list of the municipalities in the provinces of Spain of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain.r>Name'Pop.'Island...
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The other half of the archipelago makes up the province of Las Palmas
Las Palmas (province)

Las Palmas is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous communities of Spain of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic Ocean archipelago, including the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote, as well as six isles of lesser importance ....
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This province contains three of Spain's national parks
List of national parks of Spain

Spain's national parks, as defined under Spanish Law 41/1997 which established a new model of shared management of the national parks between the State and the Regional Governments , are set out in the following table in alphabetical order....
, more than any other province: the Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma, the Parque Nacional Garajonay
Garajonay National Park

Garajonay National Park is located in the center and north of the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands . It was declared a national park in 1981 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986....
 on La Gomera, and the Parque Nacional del Teide on Tenerife, encompassing Teide
Teide

Mount Teide or, in Spanish language, El Teide, is an active though dormant volcano which last erupted in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the Santiago rift and is located on Tenerife, Canary Islands....
, Spain's highest mountain and also an inactive volcano
Volcano

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or Crust , which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface....
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History


This province was established when in 1927 when the Canarias province (with Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city and a municipality on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the capital of the island, the second most populous in the Canary Islands, and the 21st largest city in Spain....
 as the capital city) divided into two provinces: Las Palmas
Las Palmas (province)

Las Palmas is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous communities of Spain of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic Ocean archipelago, including the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote, as well as six isles of lesser importance ....
 and the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.