Estadio Sausalito, Football stadium in Viña del Mar, Chile
Estadio Sausalito is a football stadium in Viña del Mar designed to hold approximately 21,700 spectators for sporting events and competitions. The facility features organized seating sections arranged around the playing field.
The stadium was completed in 1929 under mayor Gastón Hamel de Souza and inaugurated on 8 September 1929 with a match between Santiago Wanderers and Unión Española. The 1960 Valdivia earthquake nearly destroyed it, but rapid municipal reconstruction allowed it to host eight 1962 World Cup matches, including a semifinal between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. It was renovated and reopened on 3 June 2015 for the Copa América and the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
The stadium takes its name from Sausalito, California, Viña del Mar's sister city, which named its central square after the Chilean city. This connection reflects the shared history between the two communities.
The stadium sits a few minutes from Viña del Mar's centre, next to the eight-hectare Laguna Sausalito, where restaurants line the shore. Urban buses stop very close by and the complex has its own car park. Floodlights allow night matches, and when the ground is full, the nearby hillside gives an elevated view of the pitch.
The pitch runs east to west, the only stadium in Chile laid out this way, because planners chose to fit the ground around the eight-hectare Sausalito lagoon instead of altering the water. The lagoon holds 400,000 cubic metres and drains by overflow toward the Marga Marga estuary.
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