Tipo-Tipo, officially the Municipality of Tipo-Tipo ( Tausūg: ''Lupah Tipo-Tipo'';

Chavacano Chavacano or Chabacano () is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of spea ...

: ''Municipalidad de Tipo-Tipo''; ), is a

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in the

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Basilan Basilan, officially the Province of Basilan (; ; ; ), is an island province of the Philippines located primarily in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. Basilan Island is the largest and northernmost of the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago ...

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,531 people. In 2006, the municipalities of Al-Barka and

Ungkaya Pukan Ungkaya Pukan, officially the Municipality of Ungkaya Pukan ( Tausūg: ''Lupah Ungkaya Pukan''; Chavacano: ''Municipalidad de Ungkaya Pukan''; ), is a municipality in the province of Basilan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a ...

were created from Tipo-Tipo, reducing its number of

barangay The barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as ''barrio'', is the smallest Administrative divisions of the Philippines, administrative division in the Philippines. Named after the Precolonial barangay, precolonial po ...

s from 39 to 11. Tipo-Tipo was the site of the 2007 Basilan beheading incident where Abu Sayyaf bandits beheaded 14 Philippine Marines, as well as two subsequent battles in April 2014 and April 2016.

Geography

Barangays

Tipo-Tipo is politically subdivided into 11

s. Each barangay consists of

purok A ''purok'' () is an informal division within a barangay in the Philippines. While not officially considered a local government unit (LGU), a ''purok'' often serves as a unit for delivering services and administration within a barangay. ''Pur ...

s while some have

sitios A ''sitio'' (Spanish language, Spanish for "site") in the Philippines is a territorial enclave that forms part of a barangay. Typically rural, a ''sitios location is usually far from the center of the barangay itself and could be its own bar ...

Climate

Demographics

In the 2020 census, Tipo-Tipo had a population of 25,531. The population density was .

Economy

Poverty Incidence of

References

External links

Tipo-Tipo Profile at the DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index
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