Centro de Exposiciones de Buenos Aires, Convention center in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Centro de Exposiciones de Buenos Aires is a convention facility with multiple pavilions designed for trade shows and professional gatherings. The complex includes large interior spaces, outdoor areas, climate-controlled sections, an auditorium, and dining options.
The Centro de Exposiciones de Buenos Aires was created by the Municipality of Buenos Aires in 1970 and inaugurated with the Expo Francia that year. It occupied land left to the municipality after the 1960 Sesquicentennial Exhibition, where the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Buenos Aires and the Italpark amusement park had been installed. After the faculty moved to Ciudad Universitaria, the building housed an Israeli exhibition destroyed by a bomb on 25 September 1968; the municipality then remodelled the site and built the current centre.
The centre became known over two decades as the venue of the Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires, held there every year from 1975 to 1999 before moving to La Rural. It still hosts the Feria del Libro Infantil y Juvenil. In 1996 it staged the exhibition "Rock nacional 30 años", and in 1997 the festival "Buenos Aires no duerme" ran for 220 consecutive hours.
The complex stands at Couture 2231 in Recoleta, with the newer CEC building on Avenida Alcorta; the two are separate addresses, so check which one your event uses. The CEC holds about 5,300 people and its underground car park takes roughly 1,000 cars. The older pavilions and the newer halls are entered from different sides of the grounds.
The center can host multiple independent events simultaneously since the pavilions have separate entrances and different configurations. This means completely different trade shows or exhibitions can run side by side without interfering with each other.
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