Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo is a 4,000-seat indoor

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located in the city of

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

, Mexico. Built in 1974, it is part of a sports complex that also includes Estadios Cuauhtémoc and Hermanos Serdán. The arena, which is the home to the Angeles de Puebla

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team, was the largest indoor performance venue in the city until the completion of much larger Centro Cultural Siglo XXI. In addition to basketball, the Gimnasio is used for

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, and other sporting events and for occasional

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. It is the largest indoor venue to be named in memory of

Miguel Hidalgo Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican Wa ...

. The Gimnasio underwent a $12 million peso renovation in 2008 that included a state-of-the-art lighting system, refurbished restrooms, and a refurbished office.

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