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)”, “Port Isabel, Texas”, “Port Isabel, TX”, “Порт Исабел”, “بورت إيزابيل (تكساس)”, and “بورت إيزابيل، تكساس”
  • Postal code: 78578

Places of Interest

Highlights: Old Point Isabel Lighthouse.

Lighthouse
Photo: lfwlfw, Public domain.
The Point Isabel Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse…

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)
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Open location code
76R43QFR+9H
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Port Isabel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورت إيزابيل”
  • Basque: “Port Isabel”
  • Cebuano: “Port Isabel”
  • Chechen: “Порт-Изабел”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Порт Изабел”
  • Serbian: “Порт Изабел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port Isabel, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port Isabel”
  • Slovak: “Port Isabel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورت ایزابل، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Port Isabel”
  • Tatar: “Порт-Изабел”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Ізабел”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ ازابیل، ٹیکساس”
  • Uzbek: “Port Isabel”
  • Vietnamese: “Port Isabel, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Port Isabel”
  • Welsh: “Port Isabel, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Port Isabel”

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