Cruz (disambiguation) explained

Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin.

Cruz or La Cruz may also refer to:

Places

Brazil:

• Cruz, Ceará, a municipality in the state of Ceará,
• Osvaldo Cruz, a municipality and county in the state of São Paulo

Chile:

• La Cruz, Chile, a city in the Quillota province, Valparaíso region

Costa Rica:

• La Cruz Canton, a canton in the province of Guanacaste
• La Cruz District, a district of and the capital of La Cruz canton, in the Guanacaste province

Mexico:

• La Cruz Municipality, one of the 67 municipalities of the state of Chihuahua
• La Cruz, Chihuahua, a town in La Cruz municipality, Chihuahua
• La Cruz, Sinaloa, a small city in Elota municipality, Sinaloa
• La Cruz, Tamaulipas, a community in Nuevo Laredo municipality, Tamaulipas
• La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, a village in Bahía de Banderas municipality, Nayarit

Peru:

• La Cruz District, Tumbes, a district of Tumbes province, in the Tumbes region

Portugal:

• Achadas da Cruz, parish in the district of Porto Moniz, Madeira
• Cruz, Vila Nova de Famalicão, parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão
• Porto da Cruz, parish in the district of Machico, Madeira

Puerto Rico

• Cruz, Moca, Puerto Rico, barrio in the municipality of Moca, in Puerto Rico

Spain:

• Puerto de la Cruz, a city on the island of Tenerife

United States:

• Cruz Bay, a city on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Uruguay:

• La Cruz, Florida a town in the department of Florida

Venezuela:

• Puerto la Cruz, a coastal city in the state of Anzoátegui

Other

• Cruz, a 1998 Mexican film
• Cruz Family Founded by naval captain in Chile
• Cruz family Filipino family of entertainers
• Cruz Records, an American record label
• Cruz Azul, a Mexican football team
• Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a biomedical research institute in Brazil
• Ilha de Vera Cruz (Island of the True Cross), the first name given to Brazil by early Portuguese explorers
• La cruz (film), a 1997 Argentine film
• USS Point Cruz, an escort aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy commissioned just after World War II
• Cruz (Velocity Micro), a line of Android-based e-book readers and tablet PCs by Velocity Micro
• "Cruz", a song by Christina Aguilera from Stripped

See also

• De La Cruz
• Santa Cruz (disambiguation)
• Veracruz (disambiguation)
• Crus (disambiguation)
• Cruise (disambiguation)
• Kruz (disambiguation)