Tubac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States.

During the 19th century, the area was repopulated by miners, farmers and ranchers, but the town of Tubac is best known today as an artists' colony.

While stationed at Tubac (1760–1776), de Anza built the chapel of Santa Gertrudis, the foundations of which lie beneath today's St. Ann's Church.

Apaches attacked the town repeatedly in the 1840s, forcing the Sonoran Mexicans to abandon both Tumacacori and Tubac.

There the town lay abandoned; grass grew in the streets and the adobe houses crumbled away.

Painter Dale Nichols opened an art school in the small desert village in 1948 and restored some of Tubac's historic buildings.

[7] Other significant artists in the Village included Sophie and Harwood Steiger, Hal Empie and Hugh Cabot.

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.8 square miles (28.0 km2), all land.

The park also features a regional museum, an underground archeology display, and other historic buildings.

[11] There is a very active art school, along with several restaurants and a golf resort nestled along a verdant valley with one of the oldest stands of cottonwoods in the state.