Centro de Eventos do Ceará

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.

Centro de Eventos do Ceará

CEC
Former names	Pavilhão de Feiras e Eventos de Fortaleza
Location	Av. Washington Soares, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Owner	Government of the State of Ceará
Capacity	30,000
Construction
Opened	June 30, 2012 (2012-06-30)
Construction cost	R$ 486.51 million[1]

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]

Structure

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, Jennifer Lopez	Arte Music Festival, Dance Again World Tour	+25,000	[7]
2014	April 17	Guns N' Roses	Appetite for Democracy	+25,000	[8]
	December 20	SOJA (Onze:20 and Planta & Raiz)	—	—	[9]
2015	January 10	David Guetta	Listen Tour	+16,000 [10]	[11]
	October 9	Los Hermanos	Turnê 2015	—	[12]
2016	January 23	Magic!	—	—	[13]
	April 9	Roberto Carlos	—	+7,000 [14]	[15]
	June 11	Legião Urbana	Legião Urbana XXX anos	—	[16]
2017	September 2	Paulinho da Viola Marisa Monte	Paulinho da Viola encontra Marisa Monte	—	[17]
	October 1	O Rappa	Último Show	—	[18]
	December 2	Pabllo Vittar Banda Uó	Pisa Menos	—	[19]
2018	January 19	SOJA (Onze:20)	Poetry In Motion	—	[20]
	January 27	Rouge	15 Anos Tour	—	[21]
	March 24	O Rappa (BaianaSystem)	—	—	[22]
2019	July, 19	Sandy & Junior	Nossa História	—	[23]

See also

• List of indoor arenas in Brazil