Centro de Eventos do Ceará
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| Former names | Pavilhão de Feiras e Eventos de Fortaleza |
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| Location | Av. Washington Soares, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
| Owner | Government of the State of Ceará |
| Capacity | 30,000 |
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| Opened | June 30, 2012 |
| Construction cost | R$ 486.51 million[1] |
Centro de Eventos do Ceará (English: Ceará Event Center) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Fortaleza, Brazil. It is the second largest convention center in Latin America in a total area of 76,000 m2.
The arena had its first event on June 30, 2012, with a show by Jennifer Lopez and Ivete Sangalo as a part of Arte Music Festival.[2] However, the arena was officially inaugurated on August 15, 2012, with a show by Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo and Orquestra de Câmara Eleazar de Carvalho.[3]
The arena is divided into two large blocks, composed by two exhibition halls and two mezzanines, with eighteen rooms each.[4] The exhibition halls have an area of 13,500 m2, with a capacity of 30,000 spectators and are divided into West Pavilion and East Pavilion.[5]
Events
The following is a list of notable events held at Centro de Eventos do Ceará.
- Centro de Eventos do Ceará Grand Opening (Plácido Domingo and Orquestra de Câmara Eleazar de Carvalho) – August 15, 2012
- Miss Brasil 2012 – September 29, 2012
- 6th BRICS summit – July 14–15, 2014
- Miss Brasil 2014 – July 19, 2014
- Super Amostra Nacional de Animes - Held two times a year, the event popularly known as "SANA", is focused on anime, manga, tokusatsu, videogame also card game like Yu-Gi-Oh!, geek culture, J-pop and K-pop concerts.
- Intersolar Summit Brazil Nordeste - April 10, 11, 2019 [6]
Concerts
| Year | Date | Artist(s) (Opening act) |
Tour | Attendance | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | June, 30 | Ivete Sangalo, | Arte Music Festival, | +25,000 | [7] |
| 2014 | April 17 | Guns N' Roses | Appetite for Democracy | +25,000 | [8] |
| December 20 | SOJA (Onze:20 and Planta & Raiz) |
N/a | N/a | [9] | |
| 2015 | January 10 | David Guetta | Listen Tour | +16,000 [10] | [11] |
| October 9 | Los Hermanos | Turnê 2015 | N/a | [12] | |
| 2016 | January 23 | Magic! | N/a | N/a | [13] |
| April 9 | Roberto Carlos | N/a | +7,000 [14] | [15] | |
| June 11 | Legião Urbana | Legião Urbana XXX anos | N/a | [16] | |
| 2017 | September 2 | Paulinho da Viola Marisa Monte |
Paulinho da Viola encontra Marisa Monte | N/a | [17] |
| October 1 | O Rappa | Último Show | N/a | [18] | |
| December 2 | Pabllo Vittar Banda Uó |
Pisa Menos | N/a | [19] | |
| 2018 | January 19 | SOJA (Onze:20) |
Poetry In Motion | N/a | [20] |
| January 27 | Rouge | 15 Anos Tour | N/a | [21] | |
| March 24 | O Rappa (BaianaSystem) |
N/a | N/a | [22] | |
| 2019 | July, 19 | Sandy & Junior | Nossa História | N/a | [23] |