Padre Island
Padre Island is actually two barrier islands off the Gulf Coast of Texas. At 113 miles in length combined, it would be the longest barrier island in the world.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include South Padre Island and Padre Island National Seashore.
South Padre Island
South Padre Island is a small resort town on the southern tip of Padre Island off the coast of Texas, close to the border with Mexico. It is a popular spring break destination for college students.
Padre Island National Seashore
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Padre Island
- Type: Island
- Description: barrier island in Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Finger Island”, “Isla Blanca”, “Isla Corpus Christi”, “Isla de Bayan”, “Isla de San Carlos de las Malaguitas”, “Isla de Santiago”, “Isla del Padre”, “Isla del Padre Balli”, “Isle Blanco”, “La Isla de los Malaguitas”, and “Ysla del Vallin”
- Categories: barrier island, locality, and landform
- Location: Kenedy, Gulf Coast, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.8445° or 26° 50′ 40″ north
Longitude
-97.3678° or 97° 22′ 4″ west
Population
31,200
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
76R4RJVJ+RV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Padre Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Padre Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة بادري”
- Azerbaijani: “Padre adası”
- Catalan: “Padre Island”
- Cebuano: “Padre Island”
- Chinese: “帕德雷島”
- Czech: “Padre Island”
- Danish: “Padre Island”
- Dutch: “Padre Island”
- Faroese: “Padre Island”
- French: “Ile Padre”
- French: “île Padre”
- French: “Île Padre”
- French: “Padre Island”
- Galician: “Illa Padre”
- German: “Padre Island”
- Hebrew: “פדרה”
- Italian: “isola del Padre”
- Italian: “Isola del Padre”
- Italian: “Padre Island”
- Japanese: “パドレ島”
- Lithuanian: “Padrės sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Padre Island”
- Norwegian: “Padre Island”
- Polish: “Padre Island”
- Polish: “Padre”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Padre”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Padre”
- Russian: “Падре (остров)”
- Russian: “Падре”
- Serbian: “Падре”
- Spanish: “Isla del padre”
- Spanish: “Isla del Padre”
- Thai: “เกาะปาเดร”
- Turkish: “Padre Adası”
- Vietnamese: “đảo Padre”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Padre”
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