Santa Cruz

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Santa Cruz

Total population

6,952

Land area81.5 km²

Coordinates32.69°, -16.79°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

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.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Madeira

• Água de Pena
  1.7 mi away · pop. 1,759
• Machico
  2.9 mi away · pop. 11,505
• Santo António da Serra
  3.1 mi away · pop. 1,355
• Camacha
  3.2 mi away · pop. 7,991
• Ribeira Seca
  3.5 mi away
• Maroços
  3.5 mi away
• Caniço
  3.8 mi away · pop. 20,163
• Caniçal
  4.7 mi away · pop. 3,924
• Porto da Cruz
  6.3 mi away · pop. 2,597
• Ribeiro Frio
  6.6 mi away
• São Roque do Faial
  6.9 mi away · pop. 386
• Lombo de Cima
  7.1 mi away

Browse all places in Madeira →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Santa Cruz

Madeira and the Canary islands

A. Samler Brown · 1894

Anais do VII Colóquio Internacional de História das Ilhas Atlánticas, 2003 ; Seminário Nacional sobre Ilhas Costeiras e Ilhas Oceânicas, [2002]

Colóquio Internacional de História das Ilhas Atlânticas (7th 2003 Madeira (Madeira Islands) · 2006

Vida Santa em Preparação à Volta de Cristo

2017

Anais do VII Colóquio Internacional de História das Ilhas Atlânticas, 2003 [and] Seminário Nacional sobre Ilhas Costeiras e Ilhas Oceânicas: Conceitos, Direitos e Usos, 2002

Colóquio Internacional de História das Ilhas Atlânticas (7th 2003 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil) · 2006

Saudades da terra

Gaspar Frutuoso · 1963

Contribución al estudio de la historia natural de las Islas Salvajes

Agamenón Setenta y Seis. · 1978

Crucificar o Ego para Viver

Silvio Dutra · 2015

Uma Expiação Completa e Definitiva

2016

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

mophead hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla

Seen 2026-09-26

Buck's-horn Plantain

Plantago coronopus

Seen 2026-09-26

giant reed

Arundo donax

Seen 2026-09-26

castor bean

Ricinus communis

Seen 2026-09-26

Viscid Houseleek

Aeonium glutinosum

Seen 2026-09-26

Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

Seen 2026-09-26

Pride of Madeira

Echium candicans

Seen 2026-09-25

Handsome Cross Grasshopper

Oedaleus decorus

Seen 2026-09-25

Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

Seen 2026-09-25

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).