La Victoria del Viento, Public monument in Pachuca, Mexico.

La Victoria del Viento is a 20-metre monument on the Plaza Bicentenario in Pachuca, made of 14 sculptures. A female figure with wind-blown hair raises a torch in her right hand atop a rectangular quarry-stone pedestal, with four bronze reliefs on its faces and four horses at the cardinal points of the circular base.

The Plaza Bicentenario, a 22,500 m² square, was built in about three months and the monument was inaugurated on 23 September 2010 by Hidalgo governor Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong. Its bronze reliefs depict the 23 April 1812 capture of Pachuca by Vicente Beristaín and Miguel Serrano, who took 310 silver bars from the Caja Real, and the 14 October 1813 delivery of 110 of those bars to José María Morelos.

The Victory figure comes from "La Novia del Viento", a story by María Yanín Salazar Castillo published in Las historias de la abuela, which won first prize in a 1994 tale contest held by the INAH delegation. In it the wind falls in love with a girl who gives her life to the land for her friends, after which the wind blows with great force.

The site is centrally located in Pachuca and accessible by foot, with the surroundings best explored at different times of day. Visitors should note that sun exposure is direct in this open space, so weather protection can be helpful.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the statue received a face mask installation, making it a symbol of public health awareness. This unusual adaptation showed how the monument could respond to contemporary concerns.