Chiapas, Mexico · North America
El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez sits on the route: 10 minutes from El Palmar Grande.
El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez is a town located in Chiapas, Mexico. With a population of 1,436, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez sits in Mexico, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Mexico City time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez to your route.
El Porvenir (Spanish: "The Future") is a 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 is also known as El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez. On July 31, 1976, the LII Constitutional Legislature of the CongressRead more
of the State of Chiapas added the surnames Velasco Suárez to the Municipal capital of El Porvenir, in honor to the eminent Mexican neurologist, Dr. Manuel Velasco Suárez (1914-2001), who was a governor of Chiapas during the period 1970-1976, but since 1982, it was restored only El Porvenir municipality, retaining that of El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez for the municipal seat.
The town (locality) of El Porvenir is located at an official elevation of 2,839 m (9,314 ft) above mean sea level in the Sierra Madre highlands of Chiapas, at 15°27′20″N 92°16′46″W, close to the Guatemalan border. It is the second-highest municipal seat in Mexico, trailing only the seat of Emiliano Zapata Municipality, Tlaxcala. 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.
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.
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El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez is located in Chiapas, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 15.4571 latitude, -92.2800 longitude.
El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez has a population of approximately 1,436 people, making it a town in Mexico.
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