On the morning of 10 April 2026, in the Mexican town of Tancítaro, over 1,000 volunteers picked up knives, bowls, and thousands of avocados. Two and a half hours later, they had created a mountain of guacamole that no one on Earth had ever matched before.
The final weight was 6,800.5 kilograms, verified by Guinness World Records. That is roughly the weight of two adult elephants, made entirely of mashed avocado, lime, and salt.
The event took place during Tancítaro's 13th Avocado Festival, an annual celebration in a region known as the avocado capital of the world. The previous record belonged to Peribán, a neighbouring town, which set its mark of 4,972 kilograms in 2022. By beating that figure by more than a ton and a half, Tancítaro took the record back from a rival.
A batch of guacamole this size required tens of thousands of ripe avocados, all prepared quickly before the fruit browned. Everything had to come together in a coordinated effort, which is why the two-and-a-half-hour timing was as impressive as the final weight.
For the towns in Mexico's avocado region, this record is important. The fruit is central to the local economy, and events like this put a global spotlight on the growers and families whose livelihoods depend on the harvest. Records like this continue a friendly tradition of competition between communities.