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Estadio Ciro López is a football stadium located in
Popayán Popayán () is the capital of the Colombian department of Cauca. It is located in the Pubenza Valley in southwestern Colombia between the Western Mountain Range and Central Mountain Range. The municipality has a population of 318,059, an a ...
, Colombia. The stadium was opened on 8 July 1951 with a match between the
Cauca Department Cauca Department (, ) is a department of Southwestern Colombia. Located in the southwestern part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila De ...
football team and
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, who were at the time known as the ''
Ballet Azul The Ballet Azul (''Blue Ballet'') is a term coined in Colombia in the 1950s to describe the Club Deportivo Los Millonarios, Millonarios football team, during its successful period from 1949–1964, because the blue color of their uniform, the large ...
'' (Blue Ballet). It has a capacity of 5,000 spectators and served as home stadium for Independiente Popayán, Atlético Popayán, Dimerco Real Popayán, and Universitario Popayán, teams that competed in the
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. Since the second half of 2011 , it is the new home of the Centauros team of the Primera B, from Villavicencio, who was renamed Universitario de Popayán , after a series of agreements between the mayor of the city and the directives of the team, which represents the city in the promotion tournament in Colombia since the second half of 2011. To be remodeled, the Cauca football league must enter into negotiations with the mayor's office the session or sale of the sports venue, but due to the lack of commitment of its leaders, the city of Popayán does not have in the short future a worthy football venue for a departmental capital to show to all of Colombia.


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