Santa Maria is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Davao Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 53,671 people. The municipality, located on Mindanao Island, is about 40 kilometres north-west of province capital municipality of Malita and about 1,023 kilometres south-south-east of Philippine main capital Manila. The noted features of Santa Maria is the Mt. Cuiawa, standing about more than a hundred-meter above sea level.