Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2005 population 223,148) is a Spanish city on the island of Tenerife, the largest and most populated of the Canary Islands after Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as stated in the 2006 census and has a metropolitan area population of 423.022 thousand people. It is the capital of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and a co-capital of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It is part of one of the two biggest metropolitan areas in the Islands with 423,198 habitants, and itself, the second biggest city in the archipelago, second to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with whom it shares the status of capital city. It is home to the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the Canarian Ministry of Presidency (shared in a 4 years term years with Las Palmas), a half the ministries and boards of the Canarian Government, (the other half being located in Gran Canaria), the Tenerife Provincial Courts and 2 courts of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. There are also several dependecies of the La Laguna University lying on Santa Cruz soil, like the Fine Arts School or the Naval Sciences Faculty. Its harbour is one of Spain's busiests and it comprises three different sectors. It is important for its commercial and passengers traffic and for being one of the major stations in the cruisers' route from Europe to the Caribbean.