Estadio Héroe de Nacozari is a multi-use stadium

Stadium

A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

 in Hermosillo

Hermosillo

Hermosillo is a city and municipality located centrally in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the capital and main economic center for the state and region. It contains almost all of the state's manufacturing and has thirty percent of its population...

, Sonora

Sonora

Sonora officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo....

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. It is currently used mostly for football

Football (soccer)

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 matches and is the home stadium of the Buhos de Hermosillo

Búhos de Hermosillo

Búhos de Hermosillo FC is Mexican football team who resides in Hermosillo in the state of Sonora.In 2004 , Prospero Barboza Ochoa, Martín Trujillo Camacho, Alvaro Alfonso Santacruz and Pujol, Gilberto Munguia and Alberto Cota Arellano Chávez founded legally Owls Football Club of Hermosillo,...

 of the Segunda División. The stadium holds 22,000 people.

The name Héroe de Nacozari ("Hero of Nacozari") honours Hermosillo native Jesús García

Jesús García

Jesús García Corona was a Mexican railroad engineer who was killed trying to keep a train loaded with dynamite from exploding near Nacozari de García, Sonora, in 1907. As el héroe de Nacozari he is revered as a national hero and many streets, plazas, and schools across Mexico are named for...

 who, in 1907, saved the city of Nacozari, Sonora, from destruction by a fire aboard a dynamite train.