Estadio Víctor Jara is an indoor multi-use sports complex located in the western part of

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, near the

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and

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. It has a total capacity for an audience of 6,500 people. Estadio Víctor Jara features a steel truss supported roof and a rubber based playing surface, which has a polyurethane layer on top. The walls are of

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, in thickness. It also has facilities to lodge up to 185 sportspeople.

Origins

Estadio Chile () was designed in the rationalist style and inaugurated in 1969, being the first roofed sports venue in the country; its construction is the work of the architect Mario Recordón Burnier, with the collaboration of the architect Jorge Patiño. It has a pulastic court where you can play

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and

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. International

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championships have also been held, and in the past it was used for

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. In addition, it has a sports residence that can accommodate up to 185 athletes. In the venue, the ''Festival of the nueva canción chilena'' was held between 1969 and 1971, where in 1969,

Víctor Jara Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist. He developed Chilean theater by directing a broad array of works, rang ...

won first place with the song "Plegaria a un labrador". In 1970 the Santa María de Iquique cantata by

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was performed by

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was premiered.

Use as a detention center

After the

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organized by

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, who overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Victor Jara was found at the Universidad Tecnica del Estado and together with Littre Quiroga—which was originally in his office of the National Directorate of Prisons—and other detainees were held at the Estadio Chile, which after the coup was used as a detention center. Jara was tortured and killed at the Estadio Chile on 16 September 1973. Before his death, he wrote an untitled poem known as "

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" and also as "Somos cinco mil", later it would come into the hands of his wife

Joan Jara Joan Jara (born Joan Alison Turner, England, 1927) is a British- Chilean dancer, activist, and widow of Chilean icon, communist and folksinger Víctor Jara. Since his death, she dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of him, his work, ...

. In 2003 it was renamed as a memorial to the folk singer-songwriter Jara.

References

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Information about the stadium
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