Foro Sol
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| Location |
Av. Viaducto Río Piedad y Río Churubusco s/n Col. Granjas México Delegación Iztacalco, C.P. 08400 Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Coordinates | 19°24′17.6″N 99°5′45.4″W / 19.404889°N 99.095944°WCoordinates: 19°24′17.6″N 99°5′45.4″W / 19.404889°N 99.095944°W |
| Owner | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez |
| Operator | Grupo CIE |
| Capacity | Concerts: 65,000 Baseball: 26,000 |
| Field size | Left Field: 326 feet (99 m) Center Field: 417 feet (127 m) Right Field: 333 feet (101 m) |
| Surface | FieldTurf |
| Opened | 1993 |
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Mexico Tigres (LMB) 2000–2001 Mexico City Red Devils (LMB) 2000–2014 |
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Foro Sol (English: Sun Forum) is a sports and concert venue built in 1993 inside the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in eastern Mexico City. It is located 10 minutes away from the Mexico City International Airport and is operated by Grupo CIE.
The venue was originally built for staging large music concerts. Initially called the Autódromo, it could accommodate up to 50,000 people. Since 2000, it has been used as a baseball stadium as well, because the only other major baseball stadium in Mexico City (, formerly ) was demolished to build a shopping mall (the shopping mall is named Parque Delta and features a baseball theme).
It was home to the Diablos Rojos del México, a Mexican Baseball League team, and hosted Pool B of the 2009 World Baseball Classic March 8–12, 2009.
Its name comes from a popular beer brand of the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma group.
Foro Sol is the second largest concert venue in Mexico City; the largest, Estadio Azteca, has a capacity of 105,064.
Madonna was the first world-class act to perform at the Foro Sol on 12 November 1993, when it was called Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez for her first visit to Mexico in the Girlie Show tour on 10, 12 and 13 November 1993.
The venue is the host of Vive Latino, an annual multi-day rock music festival. It is one of the most important rock en español music festivals in the world, featuring a great variety of Mexican, Latin and Spanish groups of many genres, including performances of bands like Café Tacuba, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Gustavo Cerati, Ozomatli, Sepultura, Ska-P and non-Spanish speaking bands like The Wailers, Jane's Addiction, Deftones, The Chemical Brothers and The Mars Volta.
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