Tijuana is currently covered with fiberglass cows. They invaded about a month ago, and they've been grazing the sidewalks all over the city since then. Along Revolucion and Paseo de los Heroes, in Santa Cecilia Plaza and Parque Morelos, throughout Zona Rio, outside the Palacio Municipal and CECUT, at the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura and the airport. They're everywhere.

Hooker cows, matador cows, airplane cows, two-headed tiger cows, Marilyn Monroe cows, crucigrama cows, taco cows. Cows plowing through fake chunks of the border fence. Cows with neon Lucha Libre masks for spots. Cows dressed like firefighters with fire hoses for udders.

Seventy in total, 20 owe their markings to Baja California artists, many of whom covered them with Tijuana iconography. Things like 1980s Ford station wagon taxi cabs that still miraculously run. Or those scruffy donkeys that have been done up with paint to look like zebras.

The rest of the herd hails from all over Mexico, a trait unique to this installment of the international craze that is CowParade. The public art exhibits traditionally call one town home, with local businesses and organizations sponsoring individual cows. But Mexican dairy king Lala purchased all 70 and bumped it up to a national affair that travels from city to city.