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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

28º28N 16º15W, pop (2000e) 192 000. Seaport and capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, Canary Is, on N coast of Tenerife I; airport; oil refinery, wine, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, beer, pottery, tourism, agricultural trade; carnival (Feb), Festival of Spain (Apr–May), spring festival (May), Fiesta of La Virgen del Carmen (Jul).

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Autonomous region: Canary Islands
Province: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Island: Tenerife
Area: 43.38 km²
(30.82 km² in 2003)
Population: 17,857 (2001)
Population density: 411.64/km²
Length of coastline 4.03 km
Elevation:
Lowest:
Centre:
Highest:

Atlantic Ocean
4 m
Subdivisions: 9 neighborhoods
5 settlements
Postal code: E-38700
Location: 28.6833/28°41' N lat.
17.7667/17°46' W long.

Historical population

Year Population Change Density
Late-1800s around 18,000 - -
1900 11,000 - -
1991 17,205 - -
1996 17,265 - -
2001 17,265 - 401.51/km²
2002 18,228 - -
2003 18,201 - 216.26/km²
2004 17,857 - 399.40/km²

The 1996 population plunged slowly and from 1996 to 2001 read unchanged but boomed again but a little faster but from the 2002 to the 2004 census, the population slightly fell.

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