Samaná, in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a city and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and is the capital of Samaná Province. It is located on the northern coast of Samaná Bay. The city is an important tourism destination and is the main center for whale-watching tours.

Samaná is located in a small plain close to the coast but, now, most of the city is in the hills that enclose the plain.

It is the largest municipality of the province. It has a total area of 412.11 km² (almost 49% of the total area of the province), including the three municipal districts that are part of the municipality.

Most of the territory is occupied by the Sierra de Samaná, a short mountain range with steep slopes but no high mountains. The highest mountain is Monte Mesa (605 m).

The mean annual rainfall in Samaná is 2,349.8 mm and the mean annual temperature is 26.5°C.

The municipality had a total population of 51,501: 26,317 men and 25,184 women, as of 2002. The urban population was 79.24% of the total population. This includes the population of the municipal districts Arroyo Barril, El Limón, and Las Galeras. The city is primarily populated by Blacks, most of whom arrived during the early 1800s from West Africa (mainly Liberians) as slaves.. The ethnic makeup of the town was 96.1% Black, 2.2% Mixed Race, and 1.7% Other. The information **Other** most likely has a good portion of French, Irish, and Chinese people.

Santa Barbara (/ˈsæntə ˈbɑrbᵊrə/, Spanish: [ˈsanta ˈbaɾβaɾa]) is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the city is known as the "American Riviera." As of the census of 2010, the city had a population of 88,410, a loss of 1,190 from the previous census, making it the second largest city in the county after Santa Maria while the contiguous urban area, which includes the cities of Goleta and Carpinteria, along with the unincorporated regions of Isla Vista, Montecito, Mission Canyon, Hope Ranch, Summerland, and others, has an approximate current population of 220,000. The population of the entire county in 2010 was 423,895.

In addition to being a popular tourist and resort destination, the city economy includes a large service sector, education, technology, health care, finance, agriculture, manufacturing, and local government. In 2004, the service sector accounted for fully 35% of local employment. Education in particular is well-represented, with five institutions of higher learning on the south coast (the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, Westmont College, Antioch University, and the Brooks Institute of Photography). The Santa Barbara Airport serves the city, as does Amtrak. U.S. Highway 101 connects the Santa Barbara area with Los Angeles to the south and San Francisco to the north. Behind the city, in and beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains, is the Los Padres National Forest, which contains several remote wilderness areas.

Bárbara Micheline do Monte Barbosa or simply Bárbara (born July 4, 1988 in Recife, Pernambuco), is a football goalkeeper who has played for the Swedish club Sunnanå SK (2009–2010) and the Brazilian National Team.

Bárbara competed for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics.