Santa Ana Explained

Santa Ana or Santa Anna may refer to:

People

• Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary
• Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden or St. Anna (c. 1001–1050), daughter of Olaf, King of Sweden
• Benito Fernández de Santa Ana (1707–1761), Spanish missionary in Texas
• Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876), Mexican general and politician
• Santa Anna (Comanche war chief) (c. 1798–1849), Native American tribal leader
• Muriel Santa Ana (born 1968), Argentine actress

Places

Argentina

• Santa Ana, Jujuy
• Santa Ana, Misiones
• Santa Ana, Santa Fe

Bolivia

• Santa Ana del Yacuma
• Santa Ana de Velasco

Cape Verde

• Santa Ana, Cape Verde

Colombia

• Santa Ana, Magdalena

Costa Rica

• Santa Ana Canton
• Santa Ana, Costa Rica

Ecuador

• Santa Ana (La Florida), an archaeological site
• Santa Ana Hill, Guayaquil

El Salvador

• Santa Ana Department
• Santa Ana, El Salvador
• Santa Ana Volcano

Honduras

• Santa Ana, La Paz
• Santa Ana, Francisco Morazán

Mexico

• • Santa Ana, Oaxaca
• Santa Ana, Sonora
• Santa Ana Ateixtlahuaca
• Santa Ana Cuauhtémoc
• Santa Ana de Guadalupe; see San José de los Reynoso
• Santa Ana del Valle
• Santa Ana Tavela
• Santa Ana Tlapacoyan
• Santa Ana Yareni
• Santa Ana Zegache

Panama

• Santa Ana, Los Santos
• Santa Ana, Panama City

Papua New Guinea

• St. Anna (mission station), a Roman Catholic mission station during the German colonial period in New Guinea

Paraguay

• Santa Ana (Asunción), a barrio of Asunción

Peru

• Santa Ana District, Castrovirreyna
• Santa Ana District, La Convención

Philippines

• Santa Ana, Cagayan
• Santa Ana, Manila
• Santa Ana, Pampanga
• Santa Ana, Taguig

Solomon Islands

• Santa Ana (Solomon Islands), now known as Owaraha

Spain

• Santa Ana, Cáceres
• Santa Ana, Zamora
• Santa Ana de Pusa, Toledo

United States

• Santa Ana, California
  • Santa Ana (Amtrak station), a train station in Santa Ana
  • Santa Ana Canyon, a canyon near Santa Ana
  • Santa Ana Freeway, a major freeway from Los Angeles to Santa Ana
  • Santa Ana Mountains, a short mountain range near Santa Ana
  • Santa Ana River, the largest river in Southern California, flows through Santa Ana
• Santa Anna Township, DeWitt County, Illinois, a township
• Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
• Santa Anna, Texas, a town in Coleman County in Central Texas, United States
• Santa Anna, Starr County, Texas
• St. Anna, Wisconsin

Uruguay

• Santa Ana, Canelones
• Santa Ana, Colonia

Venezuela

• Santa Ana, Anzoátegui, in Anzoátegui
• Santa Ana de Coro
• Santa Ana, Nueva Esparta

Ships

• Santa Anna (1522 ship), a 16th-century war ship of the Knights Hospitaller
• Santa Anna, a Manila galleon captured and sunk by Thomas Cavendish in 1587
• Spanish ship Santa Ana (1784), a Spanish ship taken by the British in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
• Santa Anna (1806 ship), a Spanish ship that a British privateer captured in 1806 that became a whaling ship
• Svyataya Anna (St Anna), a Russian brig that disappeared in the Arctic in 1914

Music

• Santianna (a.k.a. Santa Ana), a traditional sea-shanty (folk song)
• Santa Ana, a tune recorded by British instrumental group The Shadows on their 1964 album The Sound of The Shadows
• Santa Ana, a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen released in 1998 on the 4-disc box set Tracks
• Santa Ana Winds, a song by Survivor, closing the band’s 1983 album Caught in the Game

Other uses

• Santa Ana Church, Amazonas, Peru
• Santa Ana Drags, the first drag strip in the United States
• Santa Ana Line, a former train route in California, U.S.
• Santa Ana metro station, in Santiago, Chile
• Santa Ana Peak, a mountain in Alaska
• Santa Ana River, a river in southern California, United States
• Santa Ana winds, strong seasonal winds in Southern California, United States, and northern Baja California, Mexico
• Owa language, a language of the Solomon Islands formerly called Santa Ana

See also

• Santana (disambiguation)
• Santa Ana winds (disambiguation)
• Saint Anne (disambiguation)
• Sainte-Anne (disambiguation)
• St Ann's (disambiguation)
• St Anne's (disambiguation)
• Anna (disambiguation)
• Fort Sainte Anne (disambiguation)
• Sant'Anna (disambiguation)
• Santa Anna (disambiguation)
• Santa Anita (disambiguation)