Santa Cruz - Definition and Overview

Santa Cruz, Spanish & Portuguese for "Holy Cross", is the name of several cities, regions, and other geographical features around the world:

• Santa Cruz, Argentina
• Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

• Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia

• Santa Cruz, Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Santa Cruz, Paraíba, Brazil
• Santa Cruz, Pernambuco, Brazil
• Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Santa Cruz do Arari, Pará
• Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde, Pernambuco
• Santa Cruz Cabrália, Bahia
• Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Pernambuco
• Santa Cruz da Conceição, São Paulo
• Santa Cruz do Escalvado, Minas Gerais
• Santa Cruz da Esperança, São Paulo.
• Santa Cruz de Goiás, Goiás
• Santa Cruz dos Milagres, Piauí
• Santa Cruz de Minas, Minas Gerais
• Santa Cruz de Monte Castelo, Paraná
• Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, São Paulo
• Santa Cruz do Piauí, Piauí
• Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo
• Santa Cruz de Salinas, Minas Gerais
• Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Cruz da Vitória, Bahia

• Santa Cruz, Cape Verde

• Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic

• Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

• Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala

• Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas, Mexico

• Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai, India
• Santa Cruz, Goa, a town in the state of Goa, India

• Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines

• Santa Cruz, Almodôvar, Portugal
• Santa Cruz, a parish in the district of Armamar , Portugal
• Santa Cruz, a parish in the district of Coimbra, Portugal
• Santa Cruz, a parish and a district, Portugal
• Santa Cruz, a parish in the district of Santiago do Cacém, Portugal
• Santa Cruz, a parish in the district of Vinhais, Portugal

• Santa Cruz das Flores, a borough on the island of Flores in the northwestern part of the Azores
• Santa Crouz (Azores), a parish in the district of Lagoa

• Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, Spain
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a city in the Canary Islands, Spain
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Spain
• Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain

• Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States
• Santa Cruz, California, United States
• Santa Cruz County, California, United States
• Santa Cruz Island, California, United States
• Santa Cruz Mountains, California, United States
• Santa Cruz, Texas, United States
• Santa Cruz del Zulia, Venezuela
• Santa Cruz de Flores, Lima Provincias region, Peru

Santa Cruz is the name of a Brazilian soccer team:

• Santa Cruz Futebol Clube