Estadio Jaraguay (known as ''Estadio Municipal de Montería'' until December 2015) is a multi-use
stadium
A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
in
Montería,
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. It is currently used mostly for
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
matches. The stadium was built in 2012 for the
National Games of Colombia
The National Games of Colombia, known in Spanish as the ''Juegos Deportivos Nacionales'', is the premier multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many differen ...
, with a capacity of 8,000 people, which was raised by 4,000 seats in 2017 with the construction of a new grandstand.
Jaguares de Córdoba
Jaguares de Córdoba is a professional Colombian football team based in Montería, that plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Jaraguay stadium.
History
The team was created on December 5, 2012 at a meeting he ...
play their home matches at this stadium. In December 2015, the stadium was renamed to ''Jaraguay'' after the name was chosen from a list provided by citizens in a contest organized through the website of the Municipality of
Montería. ''Jaraguay'' was a
Zenú
The ''Zenú'' or ''Sinú'' is a pre-Columbian culture in Colombia, whose ancestral territory comprises the valleys of the Sinú and San Jorge rivers as well as the coast of the Caribbean around the Gulf of Morrosquillo. These lands lie within t ...
Cacique
A ''cacique'' (Latin American ; ; feminine form: ''cacica'') was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, the indigenous inhabitants at European contact of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. The term is a Spa ...
who ruled in what is now
Montería.
References
Football venues in Colombia
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