Santa Cruz (Portuguese pronunciation: (listen); "Holy Cross") 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. "...passing a turn in the land, they entered a cover in the beach, in which they saw a deliteful valley covered in the trees in order, where they found on land a few older fallen columns, from whom the captain ordered the construction a cross, which they raised to the heights of a tree, giving the place the name of Santa Cruz, where later that founded the noble village." More information...
According to PR-model, cm-santacruz.pt is ranked 1,737,253rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 103,796th in Portuguese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before loeveandco.com and after nbafull.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
