Tipo-Tipo

Tipo-Tipo, officially the Municipality of Tipo-Tipo (Tausūg: Lupa' Tipo-Tipo; Chavacano: Municipalidad de Tipo-Tipo; Filipino: Bayan ng Tipo-Tipo), is a municipality in the province of Basilan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,531 people.

In 2006, the municipalities of Al-Barka and Ungkaya Pukan were created from Tipo-Tipo, reducing its number of barangays 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.

Tipo-Tipo is politically subdivided into 11 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios.

In the 2020 census, Tipo-Tipo had a population of 25,531. The population density was 510 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,300/sq mi).

Poverty Incidence of Tipo-Tipo