Isabela City, Basilan

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City of Isabela

Location
Map of Basilan showing the location of Isabela City.
Government
Region	Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX)
Province	Basilan
District	Lone district of Basilan
Barangays	45
Income class:	5th class city; partially urban
Mayor	Luis R. Biel II
Cityhood	April 25, 2001
Physical characteristics
Area	223.73 km²
Population      Total (2000)      Density	73,032 326.4/km²

Isabela City is a 5th class city and the capital of the province of Basilan, Philippines. The city is located on the northern shore of Basilan. Across the Basilan Strait to the north is Zamboanga City. According to the 2000 census, Isabela City has a population of 73,032 people in 13,753 households.

While administratively, the island province of Basilan is part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Isabela City itself is in not part of this region and is placed under the Zamboanga Peninsula region.

Isabela City, like the rest of the province, has seen some of the fiercest fightings between government troops and the Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic separatist group.

The city was named in honor of Queen Isabella II of Spain.

[edit] Barangays

Isabela City is politically subdivided into 45 barangays.

Aguada Balatanay Baluno Begang Binuangan Busay Cabunbata Calvario Carbon Diki Isabela Eastside (Pob.) Isabela Proper (Pob.) Dona Ramona T. Alano Kapatagan Grande Kaumpurnah Zone I

Kaumpurnah Zone II Kaumpurnah Zone III Kumalarang La Piedad (Pob.) Lampinigan Lanote Lukbuton Lumbang Makiri Maligue (Lunot) Marang-marang Marketsite (Pob.) Menzi Panigayan Panunsulan

Port Area (Pob.) Riverside San Rafael Santa Barbara Santa Cruz (Pob.) Seaside (Pob.) Sumagdang Sunrise Village (Pob.) Tabiawan Tabuk (Pob.) Timpul Kapayawan Masula Small Kapatagan Tampalan

[edit] External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information