Estadio Luis Aparicio El Grande 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 ...

Maracaibo ) , motto = "''Muy noble y leal''"(English: "Very noble and loyal") , anthem = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_alt = ...

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. It is currently used mostly for

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games and serves as the home of

Águilas del Zulia The Águilas del Zulia ( en, Zulia Eagles) is a Venezuelan professional baseball team based in Maracaibo which plays in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. History The team was founded in 1969 and debuted in the 1969–70 season. The fra ...

. The stadium holds 23,900 people and opened in 1963. It also hosted the

1986 Caribbean Series The twenty-eighth edition of the Caribbean Series (''Serie del Caribe'') was played in . It was held from February 4 through February 9 with the baseball champion teams of the Dominican Republic, Águilas Cibaeñas; Mexico, Águilas de Mexicali; Pu ...

. It is named after longtime Maracaibo shortstop

Luis Aparicio, Sr. Luis Aparicio Ortega (August 28, 1912 – January 1, 1971) was a Venezuelan professional baseball personality for 40 years, serving as a player, coach, field manager, and club organizer. (Spanish) Aparicio was the father of Baseball Hall o ...

, the father of Luis Aparicio.

Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan (; born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has been ...

performed at the stadium on 7 March 1992 during her Into The Light World Tour. The American boy band Backstreet Boys performed at the stadium on 9 May 2001 during

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