Santa Barbara or Santa Bárbara may refer to: *

Saint Barbara Saint Barbara ( grc, Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; cop, Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in t ...

, an early Christian saint and martyr *

Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Co ...

, a city in the United States.

Places

Argentina

* Santa Bárbara Department, Jujuy, Jujuy Province * Santa Bárbara, Salta

Australia

Santa Barbara, Queensland Santa Barbara is a town in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is within the suburb of Hope Island. History The Queensland Place Names Board ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_c ...

, a town in the City of Gold Coast *

Santa Barbara, New Farm Santa Barbara is a heritage-listed villa at 209 Moray Street, New Farm, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Eric Percival Trewern and built from 1929 to 1930 by DF Roberts. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Regis ...

, a heritage-listed villa in the City of Brisbane, Queensland

Brazil

* Santa Bárbara, Bahia *

Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais Santa Bárbara is a Brazilian municipality founded in 1704 and located in the state of Minas Gerais. It is a historic town on the Gold Circuit of Minas Gerais, located ninety-eight kilometres from Belo Horizonte, in the centre of the Estrada Real ...

Santa Bárbara d'Oeste Santa Bárbara d'Oeste is a municipality in the State of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. It lies about northwest of the State capital. It occupies an area of , of which is urban. In 2020, the population w ...

, São Paulo * Santa Bárbara do Leste, Minas Gerais * Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde, Minas Gerais *

Santa Bárbara do Tugúrio Santa Bárbara do Tugúrio is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Campo das Vertentes (mesoregion), Campo das Vertentes and to the microregion of Barbacena. In 2020, the estimated p ...

, Minas Gerais

Cape Verde

Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde Santa Bárbara (Portuguese meaning Saint Barbara) is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Brava, Cape Verde. It is situated at 350 m elevation, close to the Atlantic coast. It is about 1 kilometer east of the island capital of No ...

Chile

Santa Bárbara, Chile Santa Bárbara is a Chilean city and commune in Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region. In 2004 a great portion of its territory was taken off to form the new commune of Alto Bío Bío. History The city of Santa Bárbara lies on the north bank o ...

Colombia

* Santa Bárbara, Antioquia * Santa Bárbara, Nariño *Santa Bárbara de Pinto, Magdalena *

Santa Bárbara, Santander Santa Bárbara is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Municipalities of Santander Department {{Santander-geo-stub ...

Costa Rica

Santa Bárbara (canton) Santa Bárbara is a canton in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. The head city is in Santa Bárbara district. History Santa Bárbara was created on 29 September 1882 by decree 21. Santa Bárbara was originally populated by the Huetares, ...

** Santa Bárbara de Heredia

Cuba

La Demajagua, Isle of Youth La Demajagua is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet)La Demajagu ...

, founded as Santa Bárbara

Curaçao

Santa Barbara, Curaçao Spaanse Water is a town on the island of Curaçao. It contains the tourist resort ''Nieuwpoort'', the village of ''Santa Barbara'', and the Tafelberg. Spaanse Water is a natural harbour and lagoon located to the east of Willemstad. The lagoon co ...

Santa Barbara Beach, Curaçao Santa Barbara Beach is a private beach on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, located at the southeast of island. The terrain was the property of a mining company, close by an ancient phosphate In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, sal ...

Dominican Republic

*Santa Bárbara de Samaná,

Samaná (town) Samaná (old spelling: Xamaná), in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a town and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and is the capital of Samaná Province. It is located on the northern coast of Samaná Bay. The town is an importan ...

Guatemala

Santa Bárbara, Huehuetenango Santa Bárbara is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango Huehuetenango () is a city and municipality in the highlands of western Guatemala. It is also the capital of the department of Huehuetenango. The city is situated ...

Santa Bárbara, Suchitepéquez Santa Bárbara is a town, with a population of 17,172 (2018 census), and a municipality in the Suchitepéquez department of Guatemala. The municipality is situated at 140 metres above sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea leve ...

Honduras

Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras Santa Bárbara is one of the 18 departments ''(departamentos)'' into which Honduras is divided. The departmental capital is Santa Bárbara. Geography The department covers a total surface area of 5,115 km² and, in 2005, had an estimated po ...

Santa Bárbara, Honduras Santa Bárbara, with a population of 28,750 (2020 calculation), is the capital city of the Santa Bárbara Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Santa Bárbara Municipality. Demographics At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Sant ...

Italy

Santa Barbara (Ceraso) Santa Barbara is an Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of the commune of Ceraso in the Province of Salerno, Campania. It has a population of roughly a thousand. History The village was founded around the year 1005.Muggia Muggia ( vec, label=Venetian, Triestine dialect, Muja; german: Mulgs; fur, Mugle; sl, Milje) is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the south-west of the Province of Trieste, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. Lying ...

, Province of Trieste

Mexico

Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua Santa Bárbara is a city and seat of the municipality of Santa Bárbara, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the city of Santa Bárbara had a population of 8,765, up from 8,673 as of 2005. History Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua ...

Santa Bárbara Municipality Santa Bárbara is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the Unit ...

* Santa Bárbara, Durango *

Ocampo, Tamaulipas Ciudad Ocampo in Ocampo Municipality in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was founded on May 19, 1749 as Villa of Santa Bárbara; the town became known as Ocampo in 1869. The credit for the founding of Santa Barbara is given to Don José Escandón y ...

, founded as Santa Bárbara

Philippines

Santa Barbara, Iloilo Santa Barbara, officially the Municipality of Santa Barbara ( hil, Banwa sang Santa Barbara, tgl, Bayan ng Santa Barbara), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of ...

* Santa Barbara, Pangasinan

Portugal

Santa Bárbara (Angra do Heroísmo) Santa Bárbara is a parish in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira in the Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_ ...

, Terceira, Azores * Santa Bárbara (Ponta Delgada), São Miguel Island, Azores * Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande), São Miguel Island, Azores *

Santa Bárbara (Vila do Porto) Santa Bárbara () is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Porto in the Portuguese autonomous region of Azores. The population in 2011 was 405, in an area of 15.27 km². History The settlement of this place originated sometime in th ...

, Santa Maria Island, Azores * Manadas, once known as Santa Bárbara, Velas, São Jorge Island, Azores

Spain

Santa Bàrbara, Tarragona Santa Bàrbara is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Montsià in Catalonia, Spain. Santa Bàrbara is part of the Taula del Sénia free association of municipalities. Geography This town is located in a plain at the northern end of the Serra ...

, Montsià, Catalonia * Santa Bárbara Castle, Alicante * Playa de Santa Bárbara, a beach in La Línea de la Concepción

United States

** Santa Barbara County, California **

Mission Santa Barbara Mission Santa Barbara ( es, link=no, Misión de Santa Bárbara) is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California. Often referred to as the ‘Queen of the Missions,’ it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December ...

Presidio of Santa Barbara A presidio ( en, jail, fortification) was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire around between 16th and 18th centuries in areas in condition of their control or influence. The presidios of Spanish Philippines in particular, were cen ...

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

Santa Barbara Island Santa Barbara Island (Spanish: ''Isla de Santa Bárbara''; Tongva: ''Tchunashngna'') is a small island of the Channel Islands archipelago in Southern California. It is protected within Channel Islands National Park, and its marine ecosystem ...

, California **

Santa Barbara Channel The Santa Barbara Channel is a portion of the Southern California Bight and separates the mainland of California from the northern Channel Islands. It is generally south of the city of Santa Barbara, and west of the Oxnard Plain in Ventura Cou ...

* Santa Barbara National Forest, the former name of California's Los Padres National Forest * Santa Barbara, New Mexico * Santa Barbara station (PAAC) (closed), Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Venezuela

* Santa Bárbara del Zulia *Santa Bárbara, Ezequiel Zamora Municipality, Barinas

Arts and entertainment

* ''Santa Barbara'' (TV series), a 1980s American soap opera * ''Santa Bárbara'' (TV series), a 2015 Portuguese telenovela * ''Santa Barbara'' (film), a 2014 South Korean film *" Santa Bárbara bendita", a traditional song of the Asturian coal miners * "Santa Barbara", a 1978 song by Ronnie Milsap, b-side of " Back on My Mind Again" * Santa Barbara, a fictional nation, a setting of the novel '' Sard Harker''

Other uses

* Santa Barbara Airlines, a Venezuelan airline *

Santa Bárbara Sistemas Santa Bárbara Sistemas is a Spanish defense contractor based in Madrid, integrated under the ''European Land Systems'' of General Dynamics. It is one of the primary suppliers of the Military of Spain and is responsible for the assembly of heavy v ...

, a Spanish defense contractor