Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The flag of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the same, with the provincial shield in the centre. The flag of Club Deportivo Tenerife is also the same, with the shield of the entity at the centre. The Flag of Canary Islands, has two colours (white and blue) in representation of Tenerife and its province.
Flags of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain and the Canary Islands. The flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the coat of arms of the Canary Islands in the central band; the civil flag omits this. The designs were made official by the ...
The area where Santa Cruz currently lies belonged to Menceyato Guanche Anaga, which was the most easterly of the island.The city that is now Santa Cruz had a few names throughout its history: Añazo or Añaza (Guanche name), Puerto de Santiago Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Santiago de Tenerife, [16] and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (current), which means: "holy cross of Tenerife," in memory ...
On November 30, 1833 the province of the Canary Islands was created, which the Cadiz Constitution of 1812 established with its capital in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.However, there arose a rivalry with the island of Gran Canaria, [3] due to the fact that the capital was established on the island of Tenerife, although so far, the city exercised for three centuries as de facto capital of the Canary ...
The Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife within the Canary Islands Map of the municipalities of the Province of 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.
In Tenerife the highest figure was known as the Mencey, although, by the time the first Spanish incursions in the Canaries took place, Tenerife had already been divided into nine menceyatos (i.e. separate regions of the island controlled by its own Mencey), [13] namely Anaga, Tegueste, Tacoronte, Taoro, Icod, Daute, Adeje, Abona and Güimar.
According to INE data as at 1 January 2023, Tenerife has the largest population of the seven Canary Islands and was the most populated island of Spain with 948,815 officially estimated inhabitants, [6] of whom about 22.0 percent (208,906) lived in the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and 40 percent in the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz–La ...
English: According to "Banderas y Escudos de las provincias de España", published by the Ministry for Public Administrations, the flag of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is blue with a white saltire and the provincial coat of arms in the middle.