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South Padre Island, Texas. / 26.11194°N 97.16972°W / 26.11194; -97.16972. South Padre Island is a resort town in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [5] It is part of the Brownsville – Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,066 at the 2020 census. [6]
Padre Island is the second-largest island by area in the contiguous United States, after Long Island in New York on the Atlantic Coast. It is about 113 miles (182 km) long [2] [3] : 186 and 1.8 miles (3 km) wide, [4] stretching from the city of Corpus Christi, in the north, to the resort community of South Padre Island in the south.
South Padre Island. Coordinates: 26.264°N 97.189°W. The beach at South Padre Island. South Padre Island is a barrier island in the U.S. state of Texas. The remote landform is located in Cameron County, Willacy County, and accessible by the Queen Isabella Causeway. South Padre Island was formed when the creation of the Port Mansfield Channel ...
Padre Island is the longest undeveloped barrier island in the world. The national seashore is 70 miles (110 km) long with 65.5 miles (105.4 km) of Gulf beach. PAIS hosts a variety of pristine beach, dune, and tidal flat environments, [2] including the Laguna Madre on its west coast, a famous spot for windsurfing.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley ( Spanish: Valle del Río Grande ), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1] The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas ...
Queen Isabella Causeway. / 26.08639°N 97.18833°W / 26.08639; -97.18833. Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge is a concrete pier-and-beam bridge with a steel cantilever main beam span connecting Port Isabel to South Padre Island, Texas. The bridge sustains the continuation of Texas Park Road 100.
History. The Coast Guard has a long presence on South Padre Island. The original station, named Brazos Santiago, was established in 1881. A lifesaving station was established in 1918 on Boca Chica Beach named Station Brazos. A new location was opened in 1923 on the southern end of South Padre Island to a building that was used for 50 years.
Padre Island is the world's largest barrier island, with a length of 113 miles (182 km). Since 1962 Padre Island has been divided in two by the dredging of the Port Mansfield Channel roughly 30 miles (48 km) north of the south end of the island, which separated it into portions referred to as South Padre Island and North Padre Island .