Mexico: world's tallest Catrina unveiled for Día de Muertos in Mexico City

The monumental female skeleton , roughly the height of an 11-storey building , surpasses the previous record of 28.15 metres set in Puerto Vallarta in 2023 . Created by around 140 artists and technicians from Taller Xibalbá , the figure wears a purple dress stretching more than 27 metres . Visitors gathered beneath the installation to take photographs as workers put the finishing touches to the display. Facing the Metropolitan Cathedral , the Catrina stands at the centre of an enormous ofrenda , a traditional altar honouring the dead, surrounded by a carpet of some 70,000 marigold plants grown in Xochimilco .