Nemesio Camacho Campín Stadium

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It is the largest football stadium in Bogotá, located in the town of Teusaquillo, central-western Colombia, at 2650 meters above sea level. It was inaugurated on August 10, 1938 with an initial capacity of 10,000 spectators, on the occasion of the Bolivarian Games that celebrated the city, after obtaining the headquarters of this first version in the session of the International Olympic Committee held in Berlin in 1936, disputed with Caracas.

Millionaires and Independiente Santa Fe play in the stadium, who have won the Colombian League for the city 15 and 9 times respectively. Occasionally. It has also been the occasional venue for teams such as Chicó F.C., La Equidad, Fortaleza, Tigres F.C., Bogotá F.C., Academia F.C., El Cóndor and Atlético Huila.

At the beginning of 20154 it was the headquarters of the group B matches of the quadrangular promotion to the First Division of Colombian Professional Football in which the teams Cortuluá, Unión Magdalena, América de Cali and Deportivo Pereira were.

In addition, on five occasions he housed other clubs to play the Copa Libertadores: Tolima Sports in 1982, Atlético Nacional in 1989, América de Cali in 2000, Boyacá Chicó in 2008 and Independiente Medellín in 2010.

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The Colombian liberal politician and leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (at that time mayor of the city) had the idea in 1934 to build a football stadium for Bogota commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of the capital and also to receive the Bolivarian Games of 1938

Portrait of Nemesio Camacho Macías.
Councilman Luis Camacho Matiz, son of Nemesio Camacho (former tram system manager), accepted the proposal, and offered his father's "El Campín" hacienda (located in the old Cundinamarca street) as land to build the stadium. The name came from a Spanish translation of the English term "Camping", since the sector where the stage was built was a large green area widely used for camping.

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For its construction, the German calculating engineer Federico Leder Müller, who made the architectural designs, the engineer Rafael Arciniegas as builder and the engineer Alberto Dupuy as the supervisor of the work were designated. The works were delayed due to the heavy rains that affected the city during the months prior to its inauguration, which caused the overflowing of the Arzobispo River (currently channeled through NQS Avenue), which is why it was inaugurated on August 10, 1938 and not the 6 as originally planned to be the date of the celebration of the fourth centenary of the city.

The first football match that took place in the stadium was played between Ecuador and Colombia, on August 10, 1938, where the Ecuadorian team faced the Colombian team represented by the Municipal Sports Club official team of Bogotá; the first two football games of the Bolivarian Games had been held at the Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium (opened in 1936). The first goal was scored by the Colombian Tomás Emilio Mier

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