The old "Viva Mexico" building outside Tapachula, which has long been used to obtain or cancel temporary vehicle permits, has been torn down. The new location for the Banjercito office for this purpose is a big new customs complex between Mastapec and Huixtla. This location is very roughly 25 kilometers north of the old location but on the same road, Route 200.

If you are heading south into Guatemala from the U.S., you will need to go to this Banjercito office to cancel your permit before reaching the border. There is no sign or entrance to the complex on the southbound side. You will have to go past it on your left and a couple of hundred meters after there is a break in the barriers of this divided highway and you can bang a u-turn. Follow the signs for "vehiculos ligeros" (light vehicles/non-commercial) and you will see a sign for Banjercito pointing to a building on the right. This office will cancel your permit. After continuing through customs you will enter the highway northbound and have to bang another u-turn. You are allowed to ride or drive your vehicle from this point south to the border without a permit. You do not have to go directly to the border, you can stay over in Huixtla or Tapachula etc as you please.

If you are heading northbound from Guatemala through Mexico, you simply cruise all the way up to this new customs complex and obtain your temporary vehicle permit there.

An interesting aside is that if you have a CA-4 registered vehicle (Honduras/Guatemala/El Salvador/Nicaragua), you can now cross the Mexican border and cruise all the way up to Huixtla without getting a temporary vehicle permit.

Thanks for that valuable new information Mike.
By locating the new customs terminal on Mex 200 between Mapastepec and Huixtla and west of the Mex 211 junction it seems to suggest that traffic from Tapachula and the GT border (Talisman and Cd Hidalgo) could also be free to take that highway north to Motozintla and Cd Cuauhtemoc then back to GT without needing the TVIP.That would be in line with Zona Fronteriza practice as along the USA border.
Do you have any details on that aspect?
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Trying a google search only brought up an old news release from July'12 saying the new terminal was being built at the point of rancho Cerro Gordo which does not yield anything. Further searching BANJERCITO Chiapas modules put it at a point west of Huixtla and the switching to street view on Google map it was found. The
View was a bit confusing since the photo first showed a big modern customs complex , then spliced in obviously older views
of those same buildings in state of construction.
But the location is clear, 10km west of Huixtla where the highway makes an arcing curve to the north

Related , this past April2013 returning to Mexico through Talisman , GT (Cacahoatan ,Chis)we still had our TVIPs but had to get new Tourist Cards.
These were issued at the Mexican Customs booth in the actual border crossing
buildings and we rode past the old Viva Mexico terminal the following day without needing to stop.
Will that option be continued?
Also a reminder for travelers going into Guatemala with the intention of returning to and out of Mexico to the USA within the valid term of the TVIP - you do not need to cancel it for the duration of your stay in Central America. This saves you the cost of a new TVIP and the hassel of cancelling and then renewing.
You do have to hand over the tourist card though, and get a new one when you leave Guatemala or Belize for Mexico.

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Yes much thanks for the info! I never would have found if not for the directions, strange place for it seems like? My problem now is after reading this I don't remember getting a tourist card, for Guatemala.I checked my paper work and don't have it. I obtained stamp in passport and then got tvip. So how screwed am I? I'm near lake atilan. Can I pick one up other then immigration? This stinks since I thought I kinda knew what I was doing?

you dont need a tourist card, you have the stamp and the tvip. you only need 1 for mexico.
Did i talk to you yesterday in Pana?

cheers
Taz

That's a relief! In in Pana now. were you the one on the side of the road at the overlook above town?

The new terminal location actually makes good sense.
It is located west of Mex 211 and there are a number
of small uncontrolled border crossings east of the length
of that road. Plus a lot of illegal crossings. The control point
is now much easier for those people to acces if they want to
travel west into Mexico . It becomes practical for Guatemalans
to users 211 for a shortcut between the coast and
La Mesilla re- entry without needing a lot of Mexican
documentation.
Motörhead , just be sure to keep together all the paperwork you
did get from the GT border when you entered and you should
Be okay

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