In Pixar’s Coco, what town does Miguel Rivera call home?

In Pixar’s Coco, Miguel Rivera calls the fictional Mexican town of Santa Cecilia home. The town is the main living-world setting of the film and is presented as a close-knit community with a central plaza, a church, a cemetery, and many family homes.

Santa Cecilia is named after Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, which suits a story centered on Miguel’s love of music. The name also connects the town thematically to the Rivera family’s musical history, even though the family has rejected music for generations.

The film’s artists created Santa Cecilia as a stylized setting inspired by real Mexican towns rather than identifying it as one exact real-world location. Its colorful buildings, cobbled streets, market spaces, and surrounding landscape help establish the visual world before Miguel enters the Land of the Dead.

Viewers sometimes confuse Santa Cecilia with a real town shown in the film, but it is the fictional home of the Rivera family.