Overview
- Local reporting put attendance at roughly 1.5 million spectators along Paseo de la Reforma and into the capital’s historic center.
- The route began at Chapultepec’s Puerta de los Leones and concluded in the Zócalo with performances and monumental lighting.
- More than 8,000 participants in over 50 comparsas advanced with floats, giant catrinas and skulls, and monarch butterfly allegories.
- This year’s program highlighted 700 years since the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and 40 years since the 1985 earthquake, with tributes to figures including Paquita la del Barrio and Tongolele.
- Head of government Clara Brugada inaugurated the parade, calling the tradition “living memory,” as organizers incorporated indigenous salutations to the four cardinal points and Mother Earth.