Santa Barbara or Santa Bárbara may refer to: *

Saint Barbara Saint Barbara (; ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an Early Christianity, early Christian Greek saint and martyr. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings nor in the origin ...

, an early Christian saint and martyr *

Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara (, meaning ) 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 Coast of the United States excepting A ...

, a city in the United States **

Santa Barbara County, California Santa Barbara County, officially the County of Santa Barbara (), is a County (United States), county located in Southern California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 448,229. The county seat is Santa Barbara, California ...

Places

Argentina

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

Australia

* Santa Barbara, Queensland, 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, Queensland, 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 Queen ...

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

Brazil

* Santa Bárbara, Bahia * Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais *

Santa Bárbara d'Oeste Santa Bárbara d'Oeste is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the São Paulo (state), 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 ...

, São Paulo *

Santa Bárbara do Leste Santa Bárbara do Leste is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Minas Gerais This is a list of the municipalities in the States of Brazil, state of Minas Gerais, Minas ...

, 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 and to the microregion of Barbacena. In 2020, the estimated population was 4,407. See also ...

, Minas Gerais

Cape Verde

* Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde

Chile

* Santa Bárbara, Chile

Colombia

* Santa Bárbara, Antioquia * Santa Bárbara, Nariño *Santa Bárbara de

Pinto, Magdalena Pinto or Santa Bárbara de Pinto is a town and municipality of the Magdalena Department in northern Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, ...

* Santa Bárbara, Santander

Costa Rica

Santa Bárbara (canton) Santa Bárbara is a Cantons of Costa Rica, canton in the Heredia Province, Heredia province of Costa Rica. The head city is in Santa Bárbara District, Santa Bárbara district. History Santa Bárbara was created on 29 September 1882 by decree 2 ...

Santa Bárbara de Heredia Santa Bárbara is one of the six districts that make up the canton of Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica. The district of Santa Bárbara is commonly referred to as ''Santa Bárbara de Heredia'', and is the seat of the municipality of Santa Bárbara, and ...

Cuba

La Demajagua, Isle of Youth La Demajagua is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the special municipality and province of Isla de la Juventud. It is the third most populated place of the island. History Founded in 1760 with the name o ...

, 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 con ...

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 Phosphates are the naturally occurring for ...

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 the capital of Samaná Province. It is on the northern coast of Samaná Bay. The town is an important tourism ...

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 level) ...

Honduras

Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras Santa Bárbara is one of the 18 Departments of Honduras, departments ''(departamentos)'' into which Honduras is divided. The departmental capital is Santa Bárbara, Honduras, Santa Bárbara. Geography The department covers a total surface area of ...

Santa Bárbara, Honduras Santa Bárbara, with a population of 30,690 (2023 calculation), is the capital city of the Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras, Santa Bárbara Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Santa Bárbara Municipality. Demographics At the tim ...

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 (; ; ) is an Italian (municipality) in the Province of Trieste, regional decentralization entity of Trieste, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. It has 12,703 inhabitants. Lying on the eastern flank of th ...

, Province of Trieste

Mexico

* Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua ** Santa Bárbara Municipality * Santa Bárbara, Durango * Ocampo, Tamaulipas, founded as Santa Bárbara

Philippines

Santa Barbara, Iloilo Santa Barbara, officially the Municipality of Santa Barbara (, ), is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 67,630 people. Santa Barbara is north of Iloilo City and is part ...

* Santa Barbara, Pangasinan

Portugal

Santa Bárbara (Angra do Heroísmo) Santa Bárbara is a parish in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo Angra do Heroísmo (), or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the three capital cities of the Azores. Founded in 1478, Angra was h ...

, Terceira, Azores *

Santa Bárbara (Ponta Delgada) Santa Bárbara is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the Portuguese island of São Miguel in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 855, in an area of 8.72 km². Santa Barbara is a relatively young administrative entity, ...

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

Santa Bárbara (Vila do Porto) Santa Bárbara () is a Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the concelho, municipality of Vila do Porto (Azores), Vila do Porto in the Portugal, Portuguese autonomous region of Azores. The population in 2011 was 405, in an area of 15.27 km2. ...

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

Spain

Santa Bàrbara, Tarragona Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or Santa) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christianity, Western Christian culture who is said to Christmas gift-bringer, bring gifts during the ...

, Montsià, Catalonia *

Santa Bárbara Castle Santa Bàrbara Castle (, ) is a fortification in the center of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. It stands on Mount Benacantil (166 m) bordering the sea, which gave it enormous strategic value since from it you can see the entire bay of Al ...

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

United States

Mission Santa Barbara Mission Santa Barbara () is a Spanish missions in California, Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Often referred to as the 'Queen of the Missions', it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on Decem ...

** Presidio of Santa Barbara **

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

Santa Barbara Island Santa Barbara Island (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Isla de Santa Bárbara''; Tongva language, Tongva: ''Tchunashngna'') is a small island of the Channel Islands of California, Channel Islands archipelago in Southern California. It is protected ...

, 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 Co ...

Santa Barbara National Forest Santa Barbara National Forest was established as the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve by the United States General Land Office in California on December 22, 1903, with by consolidation of Pine Mountain and Zaka Lake Forest Reserve, Pine Mountain and Z ...

, 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 "Back on My Mind Again" is a song written by Charles Quillen and Conrad Pierce, and recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in December 1978 as the third single from his album ''Only One Love in My Life''. The song ...

" * Santa Barbara, a fictional nation, a setting of the novel ''

Sard Harker ''Sard Harker'' (1924) by John Masefield (1878–1967) is an adventure novel first published in October 1924. It is the first of three novels by Masefield set in the fictional nation of Santa Barbara in South America. The others are '' OD ...

Other uses

* Santa Barbara Airlines, a Venezuelan airline *

Santa Bárbara Sistemas Santa Bárbara Sistemas is a Spanish defense contractor based in Madrid, integrated under General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS), a business unit of General Dynamics which consolidated in one structure all European subsidiaries of GDLS. ...

, a Spanish defense contractor