El Caballito, Bronze equestrian statue in Plaza Manuel Tolsá, Mexico City, Mexico

El Caballito is a dark bronze equestrian statue on Plaza Manuel Tolsá in Mexico City. The horse stands with its front right leg raised and its head turned slightly; the rider sits upright, right arm extended forward holding a small baton or rolled document, a cloak falling over the horse's flank. He wears a laurel wreath, breastplate and boots, and the sculpture rests on a flat rectangular plinth.

Manuel Tolsá created the sculpture between 1796 and 1803 during the late colonial period as a tribute to the reigning Spanish monarch. The monument was relocated several times after Mexico's independence and eventually found a permanent home in front of the National Museum of Art.

The nickname El Caballito, "the little horse", replaced the official title in everyday speech. On the pedestal an inscription reads that Mexico keeps the statue as a monument to art, a reply to the calls to melt it down after independence. A smaller, slightly different model by Tolsá is displayed in the Manuel Tolsá museum in the Palacio de Minería.

The monument stands in the central square in front of the National Museum of Art in the historic center, where it can be viewed freely from all sides. The Palace of Mining is nearby, and together with the square they form an easy walking route through colonial architecture in the old city.

Weighing around 26 tonnes, the sculpture ranks among the largest freestanding bronze casts in the world and represented an extraordinary technical achievement for its time. Tolsá designed not only the figure but also the original pedestal, which had to account for the overall weight and balance of the work.