page_title: Hilda Tenorio
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Hilda Tenorio / Life and career / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: Español: Hilda Tenorio en su primera encerrona se subió al caballo a picar a uno de sus toros.
context_page_description: Hilda Eliana Tenorio Patiño is a Mexican bullfighter and matador. She was the first woman to receive her alternativa in the Plaza de Toros México, the largest bullring in the world, aged 24. Tenorio completed her alternativa on February 28, 2010. She has been an outspoken advocate of feminism in the sport. She is the third Mexican woman to attain the rank of matador.
context_section_description: Hilda Eliana Tenorio Patiño was born in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico on June 11, 1986, the daughter of Fernando Tenorio Cabrera and Hilda Patiño. In her youth, Tenorio performed well in academic settings, receiving various recognitions in elementary, middle and high school, where she received the Premio Padre de la Patria, a local award given in Michoacán.
  
  She studied law at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo where she graduated with a honors law degree.
caption: Hilda Tenorio performing a picada on one of her bulls, 2016.
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