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**Province of Spain**
	; Province shown in green
Capital:	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Autonomous community	Canary Islands
Official language	Spanish
	Area;
- Total	3381 km²
- Rank	46th
- %	0.67%
	Population;
- Total	956.352
- Rank	14th
- %	2.17%
- Density	313.57 km-2
Postal Code	38
	Parliament;
- Congress	7

For the city, see Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife also Province of Santa Cruz (Spanish: Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma. Also part of the province of Los Roques de Anaga, Salmor and Garachico. It occupies an area of 3,381 km². Is the canary province with more population density and density-sixth of Spain (INE).^[1]^[2]

Its capital is the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (commonly known as Santa Cruz), on the island of Tenerife (Spain's most populous island). In 2008 it had 1,005,936 inhabitants and a density of 313.57, making it more canaria province population density and the sixth in Spain in density, 24% live in the capital^[3]^[4]. Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. There are 53 municipalities in the province; see List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tenerife is the most populated island in the province of the Canary Islands and most populous island of Spain. The island of Tenerife has the highest altitude of Spain (Teide 3718 m).

The other half of the archipelago makes up the province of Province of Las Palmas.

This province contains three of Spain's national parks, more than any other province: the Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma, the Parque Nacional Garajonay on La Gomera, and the Parque Nacional del Teide on Tenerife, encompassing Teide, Spain's highest mountain and also an inactive volcano. La Laguna (World Heritage Site) is the second city of the island of Tenerife and the third one of the archipelago. El Teide is also a World Heritage Site.

[edit] History

This province was established when in 1927 when the Canarias province (with Santa Cruz de Tenerife as the capital city) divided into two provinces: Las Palmas and the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.