Santa Cruz is a municipality, a parish and a city in the eastern part of the island of Madeira. Much of the municipality is mountainous and apart from residential areas, farmlands and orchards cover the remainder of the land. It is the third largest municipality, behind Funchal and Câmara de Lobos; its municipal population is 29,721 (2001 census), in an area of about 81.52 km² (its densisty is 354.59 inhabitants per km²; equivalent to the second most dense on the island.