Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- Magallanes y Antártica Chilena
- Province
- Tierra del Fuego
- Type
- Municipality
- Alcalde
- Marisol Andrade Cárdenas ( Christian Democratic Party )
- Total
- 6,982.6 km (2,696.0 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 17 m (56 ft)
- Density
- 0.8460/km (2.191/sq mi)
- Urban
- 4,734
- Demonym s
- Porvenireño, -a
- Men
- 3,307
- Women
- 2,158
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( CLST )
- Climate
- Cfc
- Website
- Official website (in Spanish)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Porvenir
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Tierra del Fuego Province
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 5907
- Area
- 6982.6
- Elevation
- 17
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Capital of
- Tierra del Fuego Province
- Official website
- www.muniporvenir.cl
- Image
- Porvenir-View.jpg
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- Commons category
- Porvenir
- native label
- Porvenir
- inception
- 1899-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Porvenir is the capital of both the homonymous commune and the Chilean Province of Tierra del Fuego of the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region. It is one of Chile's southernmost towns, and has 4,734 inhabitants, including several thousand soldiers. It is the largest settlement in the Chilean half of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.
Porvenir (Spanish for "hereafter" – literally "yet to come") was founded in 1883 by immigrants from Croatia and Chiloé in connection to the gold mining that preceded the larger Tierra del Fuego gold rush that started in 1884.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porvenir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.