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Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, capital of Tenerife and of its Canary Island province, founded 1494 as a conquest base camp, made Canarias capital in 1822, population 212,456 (2026), port city undergoing refinery dismantlement under Santa Cruz Verde 2030.
Santa Cruz Department
Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia's largest (370,621 km²) and most populous department (3,115,386 in 2024), capital Santa Cruz de la Sierra, founded 1561, created 23 January 1826, economic leader with an autonomy statute approved in 2008.
Santa Cruz Island (island, Ecuador)
Santa Cruz Island (Isla Santa Cruz, English name Indefatigable) is the second largest Galápagos island, Ecuador, at the archipelago's center; home to Puerto Ayora, the Charles Darwin Research Station, about 12,000 people, and the main tourism hub.
Santa Cruz Islands
Santa Cruz Islands: island group in southernmost Solomon Islands (Temotu Province), main island Nendö; Mendaña's failed 1595 Graciosa Bay settlement, Lapita-era settlement, red-feather currency trade, British protectorate from 1898.
Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui
Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui, also known as Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua, was an indigenous Andean chronicler who wrote the Relación de antiguedades deste reyno del Piru around 1613.
Santa Cruz Province
Santa Cruz Province (Provincia de Santa Cruz) is Argentina's third-largest, sparsely populated Patagonian province, capital Río Gallegos, provincialized in 1955; its economy rests on oil, gas, and gold-silver mining.
Santa Cruz Warriors
The Santa Cruz Warriors (Sea Dubs) are the NBA G League affiliate of the Golden State Warriors, based at Kaiser Permanente Arena since 2012; 2015 G League champions and four-time Franchise of the Year.
Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz, California: coastal city and county seat on northern Monterey Bay, 75 miles south of San Francisco. Incorporated 1866, chartered 1876, council-manager government since 1948; home of UC Santa Cruz; known for tourism and extreme housing costs.
Santa Evita
Santa Evita is a 1995 novel by Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez that follows the wanderings of Eva Perón's embalmed corpse after her death in 1952.
Santa Fe County
Santa Fe County, New Mexico: county seat Santa Fe, the state capital. Established 1852 in New Mexico Territory; 154,823 residents (2020 census), 1,910.38 sq mi of land, FIPS 35049.
Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, nonprofit research center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1984 by Los Alamos scientists to study complex systems.
Santa Fe Klan
Santa Fe Klan is the stage name of Ángel Jair Quesada Jasso, a Mexican rapper and singer from Guanajuato known for fusing rap with cumbia.
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail, opened by William Becknell in 1821, was a commercial route from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, used until the railroad arrived in February 1880; also a 1987 National Historic Trail.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico: capital of New Mexico, founded 1610 by Don Pedro de Peralta, oldest capital in the United States; population about 89,800, tourism-driven economy, Palace of the Governors.
Santa Inc.
Santa Inc. is a 2021 HBO Max adult stop-motion animated comedy created by Alexandra Rushfield, starring Sarah Silverman as elf Candy Smalls and Seth Rogen as Santa, eight episodes about the first female Santa, noted for its poor reception.
Santa Isabel
Nevado de Santa Isabel (Poleka Kasue) is an active andesitic dome-complex volcano in Colombia's Cordillera Central, 4,965 m high, in Los Nevados National Park, whose glacier has shrunk from 27.8 km² to 0.16 km² and is expected to disappear within about five years.
Santa Isabel Island
Santa Isabel Island (Santa Ysabel, Isabel Island) is the longest island of Solomon Islands, in Isabel Province, named by Mendaña in 1568; capital Buala, Mount Kubonitu, Bugotu, Cheke Holo, and Zabana languages, nickel mining and logging.
Santa Lucia in Selci
Santa Lucia in Selci (Santa Lucia in Orfea) is a Baroque convent church at Via in Selci 82, rione Monti, Rome, on the Esquiline Hill; an ancient diaconia rebuilt by Maderno (1604) and Borromini (1637-38), held by Augustinian nuns since 1568.
Santa Lucía, Canary Islands
Santa Lucía de Tirajana, a municipality in southeast Gran Canaria, Spain, between Agüimes and San Bartolomé de Tirajana; founded 1815, 61.56 km², capital at 680 m, about 78,600 INE-registered inhabitants (2025), known for La Fortaleza, Vecindario commerce, and Pozo Izquierdo windsurfing.
Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais
Santa Luzia (MG), IBGE code 3157807, is a municipality in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region on the Rio das Velhas; founded 1692 in the gold cycle, a commercial entrepot, imperial city, 13th most populous in Minas Gerais.
Santa María (ship)
The Santa María was the flagship and largest of Christopher Columbus's three ships on his 1492 Atlantic voyage, lost on a reef off Hispaniola at Christmas 1492.
Santa María (volcano)
Santa María, or Volcán Santa María, is an active 3,745 m stratovolcano in western Guatemala, whose 1902 Plinian eruption, Guatemala's largest, has been followed since 1922 by the Santiaguito lava dome.
Santa Maria Antiqua
Santa Maria Antiqua, early medieval church in the Roman Forum at the foot of the Palatine Hill, founded in the mid-6th century inside Domitian's palace complex, famous for layered 6th–11th century frescoes and rediscovered in 1900.
Santa Maria da Feira
Santa Maria da Feira is a city and municipality in Portugal's Aveiro District, south of Porto, named after a fair held from 1117. Known for its National Monument castle, the Festa das Fogaceiras, and cork and footwear industry.
Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona
Santa Maria del Mar is a Catalan Gothic church in Barcelona's Ribera district, built between 1329 and 1383 and often called the finest example of that tradition.
Santa Maria dell'Orto
Santa Maria dell'Orto, a 16th-century guild church in Trastevere, Rome, at Via Anicia 10; built from 1495 over a miraculous Virgin image in an orchard, financed by food-trade guilds, facade by Vignola, Japanese national church.
Santa Maria della Salute
Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute), Longhena's Baroque votive church at the Grand Canal entrance in Venice, vowed 22 October 1630 during the plague, begun 1631, consecrated 1687, with its annual 21 November Festa della Salute.
Santa Maria delle Vigne
Santa Maria delle Vigne is a basilica in central Genoa, Italy, considered the city's oldest Marian shrine, with a Romanesque bell tower and 17th-century Baroque interior.
Santa Maria di Grottaferrata
Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, also called the Abbey of San Nilo, is a Basilian monastery near Rome founded in 1004 by Nilus of Rossano, consecrated in 1024, and the last Italo-Greek monastery keeping the Byzantine rite in communion with Rome.
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the Frari, is Venice's great Franciscan Gothic brick church in San Polo, 102 m long, consecrated 1492, holding Titian's Assunta and Pesaro Altarpiece, Bellini's triptych, Donatello's St John, and the tombs of Titian, Canova, and Monteverdi.