Santa Cruz, Portuguese meaning Holy Cross is a municipality,a parish and a city in the eastern part of Madeira. Much of the municipality is mountainous, while farmlands cover the remainder of the land including a couple of cherry fields.Santa Cruz is linked with Madeira's only superhighway.It is the third largest major parish in population after Funchal and Câmara de Lobos. Its parish population is 16,842- and the municipality (borough) is 29,721. The municipality is one of the smallest on the island. Its area is 81.52 km²/8,152 ha. Its density is 354.59/km² thus ranking the second most densest in Madeira. It is located SE of Santana, SW of Machico, NE of Funchal. It is linked with a road linking Funchal and Machico while part of the parish is passed with a road linking to Santana. The urban sprawl of the city of Funchal lies westward, while in the East of the municipality is the international Funchal/Madeira Airport (FNC), the gateway to Madeira.

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