El Porvenir

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. 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 / 15.45556°N 92.27944°W / 15.45556; -92.27944, close to the Guatemalan border. It is the second-highest municipal seat in Mexico,...