Mazatlán carnival expected to generate 1.2 billion pesos in economic impact

Mexico’s Tourism Ministry projects that Mazatlán’s 2026 carnival volition pull much than 1.26 cardinal attendees and make an estimated economical interaction of 1.2 cardinal pesos (US $69 million), according to officials who presented the event’s details astatine the ministry’s Punto México abstraction successful Mexico City.

The 128th variation of 1 of Mexico’s astir important carnivals, scheduled for Feb. 12-17, volition observe the tambora — a accepted two-headed bass drum — arsenic its cardinal theme, honoring the instrument’s taste value successful Sinaloa.

The event, which runs from Feb. 12-17 successful Mazatlán, Sinaloa, kicked disconnected with a property league led by Sinaloa Tourism Minister Mireya Sosa Osuna, Mazatlán Mayor Estrella Palacios Domínguez and Deputy Tourism Minister Nathalie Desplas Puel. (Tourism Ministry)

Deputy Tourism Minister Nathalie Desplas Puel said the carnival aligns with President Claudia Sheinbaum’s imaginativeness of promoting improvement with wellbeing and shared prosperity.

“The Mazatlán carnival raises its dependable to archer the satellite that its past remains alive, that its euphony continues to acceptable the gait and that its radical proceed celebrating with joy, unity and dignity,” Desplas said astatine Thursday’s presumption alongside Sinaloa Tourism Minister Mireya Sosa Osuna and Mazatlán Mayor Estrella Palacios Domínguez.

State officials estimation edifice occupancy volition scope 87%, with astir 92,000 tourists expected to lend much than 1.1 cardinal pesos to the section economy. The lawsuit volition payment work providers, merchants, originative sectors and the taste industry.

A peculiar information cognition involving 3,000 unit from municipal, authorities and national authorities volition guarantee information during the festivities.

The carnival’s programme includes coronations for the King of Joy (Feb. 12), the Queen of the Floral Games (Feb. 13), the Carnival Queen (Feb. 14) and the Children’s Queen (Feb. 16), arsenic good arsenic the accepted Naval Combat (Feb. 14) and carnival parades (Feb. 15 and 17).

Musical performances volition diagnostic Edén Muñoz, Yuridia and Belinda, with a peculiar tribute to Germán Lizárraga accompanied by the Sinaloa Symphony Orchestra.

“We privation to item our tambora euphony to each of Mexico and the world,” Palacios said. “We are precise arrogant due to the fact that these are our roots, and we privation this year’s parade, taste events and floats to carnivore the stamp of what makes america unsocial successful Mazatlán.”

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