Port Isabel

The City of Port Isabel, population 6,300 in 2019, is the southernmost city and port on the coast. It is a tourism, retirement, sports fishing and commercial fishing destination and the gateway to South Padre Island.
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  • Type: Town with 5,380 residents
  • Description: city in Cameron County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: Point Isabel, Texas”, “Port Isabel, Texas”, and “Port Isabel, TX
  • Postal code: 78578

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port Isabel Lighthouse.

Lighthouse
Photo: lfwlfw, Public domain.
The Point Isabel Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located in Port Isabel, Texas, that was built in 1852 to guide ships through the Brazos Santiago Pass to Port Isabel.

Port Isabel

Latitude
26.0734° or 26° 4′ 24″ north
Longitude
-97.2086° or 97° 12′ 31″ west
Population
5,380
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PIS
Open location code
76R43QFR+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151611668
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4720060
Wiki­data ID
Q982504
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Port Isabel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بورت إيزابيل (تكساس)
  • Arabic: بورت إيزابيل، تكساس
  • Arabic: بورت إيزابيل
  • Basque: Port Isabel
  • Cebuano: Port Isabel
  • Chechen: Порт-Изабел
  • Chinese: Port Isabel
  • Chinese: 伊莎貝爾港
  • Croatian: Port Isabel
  • Czech: Port Isabel
  • Danish: Port Isabel
  • Dutch: Port Isabel
  • Egyptian Arabic: بورت ايزابيل
  • French: Port Isabel
  • German: Port Isabel
  • Gilaki: پؤرت ایزابل
  • Haitian: Port Isabel, Texas
  • Haitian: Port Isabel
  • Hungarian: Port Isabel
  • Irish: Port Isabel
  • Italian: Port Isabel
  • Japanese: ポートイザベル
  • Ladin: Port Isabel
  • Malagasy: Port Isabel, Texas
  • Malagasy: Port Isabel
  • Min Nan Chinese: Port Isabel
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Port Isabel
  • Norwegian: Port Isabel
  • Persian: پورت ایزابل، تگزاس
  • Persian: پورت ایزابل
  • Polish: Port Isabel
  • Portuguese: Port Isabel
  • Serbian: Порт Изабел
  • Serbo-Croatian: Port Isabel, Texas
  • Serbo-Croatian: Port Isabel
  • Slovak: Port Isabel
  • South Azerbaijani: پورت ایزابل، تکزاس
  • Spanish: Port Isabel (Texas)
  • Spanish: Port Isabel
  • Tatar: Порт-Изабел
  • Ukrainian: Порт-Ізабел
  • Uzbek: Port Isabel
  • Uzbek: Порт Исабел
  • Vietnamese: Port Isabel, Texas
  • Vietnamese: Port Isabel
  • Welsh: Port Isabel, Texas
  • Welsh: Port Isabel

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Port Isabel”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.