Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2003 population 220,022) is a Spanish city on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
It is the capital of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and a co-capital of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. The municipality is the northernmost and the easternmost in the island and only the easternmost in the province.
The city is a seaport and a tropical resort, offering its impressive scenery and mild sub-tropical climate to visitors.
The port also exports products of the Canaries such as vegetables, tobacco, and bananas. The oil refinery, inaugurated in November 28th 1930, and other industries were constructed to attempt to diversify the economy.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is unusual in having a major oil refinery sited in the city centre. Ecologists groups – particularly ATAN - have drawn attention to the scope for a major disaster should there be a fire at the 70-year old plant. The fact that the city’s two major evacuation routes (the North and South highways) both run past the refinery is further cause for concern. This particular case exemplifies the growing conflict between industrial land uses and tourism in Tenerife.
The city’s airport was the site of the Tenerife disaster, the worst aircraft accident in history.
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Santa Cruz das Flores is both a municipality in the Western part of the Azores.
The parish population in 2001 is 1,810, its density is 45.8/km² and the area is 39.55 km².
Location:
Latitude: 39.45 (39°27') N
Longitude: 31.11667 (31°7') W
Settlements and geographic areas
The population is 2,493(2001) and the area is 72.11 km². The municipality the Northern portion of the island of Flores. It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on all sides except South, where is borders Lajes das Flores to the south; Corvo is visible from the North coast.
Santa Cruz has a few schools, a lyceum, a gymnasium, churches and squares
Santa Cruz is a freguesia in the concelho of Almodôvar, Portugal.
Area:com 123.82 km²
Population: 898 (2001)
Dwellings:
Density: 7.3 persons/km².
El Puerto de Santa María is a city located on the banks of the Guadalete River in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2003 census, the city has a population of 79,889, of which 49,924 live in the urban center, and the remainder in the surrounding areas.
Geography
El Puerto de Santa María is located on the Atlantic coast of the Bay of Cádiz, near the municipalities of Jerez de la Frontera, Rota, Puerto Real, and Cádiz. It is popular for its beaches, which are the town's principal tourist attraction. Well known beaches include Vistahermosa, Valdelagrana, and La Puntilla. Like
Matosinhos is a Portuguese city and respective municipality north of Oporto, whose conurbation it belongs. The city includes the parishes (freguesias) of Matosinhos and Leça da Palmeira, and has a population of 28488 (2001); the municipality has a population of 165921 in 10 parishes almostly urban.
Matosinhos
Leça da Palmeira
Senhora da Hora
São Mamede de Infesta
Leça do Balio
Custóias
Guifões
Santa Cruz do Bispo
Perafita
Lavra
Santiago do Cacém is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 1060.0 km² and a total population of 30,305 inhabitants.
The municipality is composed of 11 parishes, and is located in the district of Setúbal.
The present Mayor is Vitor Manuel Caro Proença (Communist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Sérgio Baptista Pereira Bento (Communist).
The municipal holiday is July 25.
Parishes
Abela
Alvalade
Cercal
Ermidas-Sado
Santa Cruz
Santiago do Cacém
Santo André
São Bartolomeu da Serra
São Domingos
São Francisco da Serra
Vale de Água
