El Porvenir, Chiapas

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El Porvenir (Spanish: "The Future") is a "municipio" (municipality) and township in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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, Governor of Chiapas during the period 1970 to 1976, but that nomenclature is now considered obsolete.

El Porvenir is located at an elevation of approximately 2850 m (9350 ft) above mean sea level in the Sierra Madre highlands of Chiapas, at coord|15|27|N|92|16|W|, close to the Guatemalan border. The municipality covers a total surface area of 121.70 km² and, in the year 2000 census, reported a population of 11,641.

On August 27 2001 President Vicente Fox attended a ceremony in El Porvenir in which the municipality was officially twinned with San Pedro Garza García,
Nuevo León, thus symbolically uniting the country's industrial, developed north with its rural, underdeveloped south.

External links

* [http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chiapas/municipios/07070a.htm El Porvenir municipality] "(Enciclopedia de los municipios de México)"
* [http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/actividades/discursos/index.php?contenido=1710&pagina=103 Firma del Convenio de Hermanamiento de El Porvenir San Pedro Garza García] "(Presidencia de México)"