Overview
- Mexico City’s Gran Desfile drew an official count of about 1.45 million spectators, with more than 8,000 participants across 50-plus comparsas on a route from Chapultepec to the Zócalo inaugurated by Jefa de Gobierno Clara Brugada.
- Parade tableaux blended Indigenous cosmology with civic memory, marking 700 years of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and honoring cultural figures, alongside community arts groups and visiting contingents.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum presented a Palacio Nacional altar dedicated to Indigenous women, describing the offering as a tribute to their strength, wisdom and enduring legacy.
- Morelia closed stretches of its Centro Histórico to vehicles for safer foot traffic and staged a Catrina and Catrín parade that local reports said featured roughly 3,600 costumed participants.
- Hispanic communities in the United States reported strong attendance at public observances despite enforcement fears, including about 12,000 at Mankato’s festival, as museums and cultural venues in Mexico kept altares and exhibitions open into early November.