Whatever Zapopan can do, Guadalajara can do better (or the same)! That seems to be the mantra these days, as the two municipalities vie for top dog status in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
Following in Zapopan’s footsteps, Guadalajara mayor Pablo Lemus announced this week that a section of the amazing woven canopy created by women in the Jalisco town of Etzatlan will be displayed in the centro historico over the Christmas holidays. Back in August, the canopy was installed on the Andador 20 de Noviembre pedestrian precinct that runs between the Zapopan Arches and the Plaza de las Americas.
The canopy, set to be installed next week, will cover around 100 meters along several blocks of the Andador Pedro Moreno. The pedestrian walkway reopened at the start of November after nine months of renovation work.
The canopy, which in its entirety measures nearly 3,000 square meters, was put forward for a Guinness World Record. So impressed were the Guinness company that they created a special category for crocheted overhead canopies, and rubber-stamped the achievement in October 2019.
Around 200 women participated in the creation of the canopy, which began as a small project dreamed up by veterinarian Lorena Ron and her 90-year-old mother Paloma. It took the women nearly 25,000 hours to turn 825 kilograms of raffia into more than 8,000 hexagons.