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 (Parque del Seguro Social, formerly Parque Delta) was demolished to build a shopping mall (the shopping mall is named Parque Delta and features a baseball theme).
It is 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 considered the second largest in capacity for concert attendance in Mexico City. Estadio Azteca is aging, but it is very functional and it has a capacity of 105,064.
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Famous quotes containing the word sol:
“my Uncle Sol’s farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens when”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)