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Coliseo General Rumiñahui

indoor sporting arena located in Quito, Ecuador

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4356807 ↗
Source-derived summary

Coliseo General Rumiñahui is an indoor sporting arena located in Quito, Ecuador. The capacity of the arena is 16,000 and is used mostly for basketball, volleyball and other sports. It was built on July 9, 1992. It is also used for music concerts and other events.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Coliseo General Rumiñahui” is indoor sporting arena located in Quito, Ecuador. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Coliseo, General and Rumiñahui, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Coliseo, General and Rumiñahui is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “indoor sporting arena located in Quito, Ecuador” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4356807. Authority coordinates are -0.213, -78.490. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coliseo General Rumiñahui” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.