El Porvenir (

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: "The Future") is a ''

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) and township in the

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. El Porvenir was given town status with the creation of the municipality on 13 January 1890. The city was formally known as El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez in honour of prominent neurologist

Manuel Velasco Suárez Manuel Velasco Suárez (San Cristóbal de las Casas 28 December 1914 – Ciudad de México 2 December 2001) was a Mexican neurologist, neurosurgeon, scientist and humanist. He became governor of the state of Chiapas. Career Velasco founded a ...

, Governor of Chiapas during the period 1970 to 1976, but that nomenclature is now considered obsolete. The town (locality) of El Porvenir is located at an official elevation of 2,839 m (9,314 ft)

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in the

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highlands of Chiapas, at , close to the

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n border. It is the second-highest municipal seat in Mexico, trailing only the seat of

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. The municipality covers a total surface area of 121.70 km² and, in the 2010 census, reported a population of 13,201 inhabitants. Of this total, 1,436 lived in the municipal seat, its only urban locality.2010 census tables: INEGI
On August 27, 2001

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attended a ceremony in El Porvenir in which the municipality was officially twinned with

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, thus symbolically uniting the country's industrial, developed north with its rural, underdeveloped south.

References

External links

El Porvenir municipality
''(Enciclopedia de los municipios de México)''
Firma del Convenio de Hermanamiento de El Porvenir San Pedro Garza García
''(Presidencia de México)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Porvenir, El Municipalities of Chiapas