Vista parcial de Porvenir

The city of Future is the capital of the Chilean province of Tierra del Fuego and of the commune homonym, and is the most inhabited city of the Chilean part of the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego with 5.406 inhabitants (I.N.E. 2002).

Porvenir arose from a police detachment installed in 1883 during the fever of the gold and was founded in the year 1894, under the government of Jorge Montt Álvarez, for service of the new cattle stays. Initially it was lived(inhabited) by Chilotes and Croatians stimulated by the discovery of golden deposits. The city is at the head of Punta Arenas separated by the Strait of Magellan, in the bay Future, called Karkamke (low waters) for the selk'nam

The voyage of the Strait is realized by the Barge Melinka, a ship multiprósito for passengers and cars, which in 2 hours 20 minutes there realizes the itinerary of Three Bridges (Punta Arenas) to Bay Chilota from Tuesday until Sunday. The ferryboat proceeding of Punta Arenas moors in Bay Chilota, to 4 Km, from where there is service of buses.

At present, Future has an airport located to 15 minutes of the city, museums, hotels, restaurants and other services of tourist interest. Fernando Cordero Rusque emphasizes the Provincial Museum, created in 1980, That exhibits a photographic and archaeological sample of the selk'nam, aborigines extinguished of the island, information about the find and exploitation of the gold from 1881, one notable collection of altarpieces of the most notable houses of Tierra del Fuego, as well as a section of natural history, archaeology and ethnography. Its possesses besides the beautiful coastalone, in whoseshores see pink Flemings and swans of black neck, where stand out former casonas, the Park of the Recollection, with machineries used long ago by the pioneers of this region, the Yugoslavian Park and the Monument to the Pioneers, then its turns towards the south surrounding the bay Future up to the Viewing-point, From where its appreciates the whole city.