🠈 Santa Cruz, Arizona 🠊
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Santa Cruz County is county covering 1238 square miles in South Central Arizona that split from Pima County in 1899. The county had a reported population of of 47,420 in 2010. It's county seat is Nogales, Arizona on the US Mexican Border.
Santa Cruz County was named for the Santa Cruz River which was named by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645-1711), a Jesuit priest from Northern Italy, who established missions in Pimería Alta (upper land of the Pimas) starting in 1687.
The Santa Cruz River flows South from its headwaters in the San Rafael Valley into Mexico where it turns westward then runs North through Nogales and into Tucson before joining the Gila River. The name "Santa Cruz" translates to "Holy Cross."