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Estadio Panamericano (Stade Panaméricain de La Havane) is a multi-use stadium located near Cojimar, a city ward of
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, and as an alternate site for the
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History

It was first used as the main stadium for the
1991 Pan American Games The 1991 Pan American Games were held in Havana, Cuba from August 2 to August 18, 1991. There were 4,519 athletes from 39 countries of the PASO community, with events in 33 different sports. The main stadium was the Estadio Panamericano, a mul ...
. The stadium opened August 1, 1991 and is able to hold 34,000 people (can have expanded capacity to 50,000).Estadio Panamericano on lonelyplanet.com
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in 2016. The episode showed the stadium in disrepair and mostly abandoned.


Renovations

The stadium was renovated in 2008 with an artificial turf replacing the original grass turf.


Structure

The stadium is surrounded by a park and faces nearby Boca de Cojimar (
Havana Bay Havana Harbor is the port of Havana, the capital of Cuba, and it is the main port in Cuba (not including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, a territory on lease by the United States). Other port cities in Cuba include Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Manzanillo ...
). Seating is mainly open air with a partially covered grandstand to the east side. Surrounding the football field is an oval track.


See also

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Estadio Latinoamericano The Estadio Latinoamericano ( Spanish for ''Latin American Stadium'') is a stadium in Havana, Cuba. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the second largest baseball stadium in the world by capacity. Gran Estadio, a spacious pitchers' park ...
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Estadio Pedro Marrero Estadio Nacional de Fútbol Pedro Marrero, the home of CF Ciudad de La Habana, is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba. It is now used primarily for football matches. The stadium holds 30,000 and was built in 1929. History Originally named ...


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