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Amazonia Arena
The Arena da Amazônia stadium in Manaus, Brazil.

The Arena da Amazônia (which means Amazon Arena) is a special stadium in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. It's built where an older stadium called Vivaldão used to be.

This stadium can hold about 44,300 people in its seats. It was built between 2010 and 2014 because Brazil was hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The Arena da Amazônia was also used for the football games during the 2016 Summer Olympics. For the World Cup, it had a slightly smaller maximum capacity of 40,549 fans.

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  • Construção Arena Amazônia

    The stadium being built in 2013.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Arena da Amazônia para niños

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