The Estadio Yaquis is a

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Ciudad Obregón Ciudad Obregón is a city in southern Sonora. It is the state's second largest city after Hermosillo and serves as the municipal seat of Cajeme. As of 2020, the city has a population of 436,484. Ciudad Obregón is south of the country's U.S.� ...

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. It is primarily used for

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and serves as the home stadium for

Yaquis de Obregón The Yaquis de Obregón () are a professional baseball team based in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. They compete in the Mexican Pacific League (LMP). The team plays at the Estadio Yaquis with a capacity of 16,500 seated spectators. The team h ...

. It holds 16,000 people. The construction of the venue started in 2014, and it opened in 2016. The

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and the

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were carried out by Gómez Vázquez International (GVI), a company led by

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Jose Manuel Gomez Vazquez Aldana, while the

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was made by Dynfra, Infraestructura Inteligente. It was inaugurated on 12 October 2016, by then-governor of

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...

, Claudia Pavlovich Arellano.

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