After one year and four months in the making, the monumental sculpture by Francisco Toledo entitled La Lagartera (The Alligator Pond) has finally been placed in the city of Monterrey. This rectangularly shaped high-relief sculpture describing a group of alligators swimming on a scaled surface rendered in several proportions from which frogs, fish, crabs, turtles, and alligators emerge, was inspired by another work Toledo had created in ceramic some years ago that measured approximately 1.3 meters in length by 59 centimeters in width and six centimeters in height, which is owed by businessman Mauricio Fernández. La Lagartera is located on the site where Monterrey was founded in 1596. It weights 20 tons and is 25 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 3 meters high. The work marks the beginning of the Canal de Santa Lucía Boulevard, where several sculptures such as by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Caballo (Horse), are also found. This monumental work was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Toledo, Governor José Natividad González-Parás, and María Teresa Franco, director of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico.