In 1970 she was crowned the festival queen at that year's new year festival in Kataragama.

A large festival is held, featuring presentations of musicians from the Conservatoire de Paris, the election of a festival queen, and a parade dedicated to the evolution of Tehuantepec traditional dress.

The week-long celebration begins with the selection of the local festival queen and her court and culminates with a carnival, popular 10k race, parade and "fly-in" breakfast at the local airport.

It also includes the election of a festival queen and a parade dedicated to the evolution of Tehuantepec traditional dress.

The town holds an annual festival on November 25, in honor of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Santa Catalina de Alejandria), which includes the election of a festival queen, games, sports, singing, and a fair.

The festival runs for a three days, and up until 2006, hosted an annual 'Choosing and Crowning of Festival Queen', a pageant whereby the festival queen is chosen to represent the festival for that year.

The event crowns a festival queen, who is crowned by the municipal president.

It consists of a flower parade and a year-long royalty program to select a festival queen from one of the 24 area high schools.

These celebrations feature mariachis, folk dance and a festival queen.

The Fur queen invited several of her fellow festival queens to see her Parish anyway, both in its devastation and its natural splendor.