Santa Barbara, officially the Municipality of Santa Barbara, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to …Santa Barbara, officially the Municipality of Santa Barbara, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 92,187 people. The early settlers of Santa Barbara, like many Malay communities in Southeast Asia, were riverine people. They established their settlements along the banks of the Tolong and other rivers and creeks in the area. Consequently, before Spanish colonization, the town was known as "Tolong," named after its principal river, now called the Sinocalan River.