Sta. Barbara

Proper noun

Santa Barbara

1. Any of several cities.
   1. A city, the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
      • The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.2015 May 21, Eliott C. McLaughlin, “How does Santa Barbara match up with other U.S. oil spills?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016
2. An island of Santa Barbara County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.