Santa Maria Navarrese is the fraction of Baunei municipality in the coastal province of Ogliastra, Sardinia. Santa Maria Navarrese is close to another small village, Tancau Sul Mare, in the Municipality of Lotzorai. The two locations are so close they practically form a single country and a single stretch of coastline, famous for tourism. Santa Maria is located 8.8 kilometers and 3.0 kilometers from Baunei from Lotzorai. We see the port of the City of Tortoli Arbatax, where large ships coming from Genoa and Rome.

The sea front of Santa Maria there is a group of islets called in Italian by the name of islets of Ogliastra and Sardinia as S'Isolotto.

Santa Maria has a marina, mainly used in summer for tourists and the boats from where the barges that carry tourists up and down the creeks best known of Sardinia: Cala Goloritzè, Cala Luna, Is Puligo de nie (Cala Mariolu) and Cala Sisine.

Following tradition, the name of Santa Maria Navarrese would be a princess of Navarre and in 1052, survived a shipwreck found refuge in this stretch of coast and built a church to thank the Virgin.