Club Atlético Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (known simply as Obras Sanitarias or Obras) is a sports club

Sports club

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 located in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

Argentina

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Although was conceibed riginally as a rugby union

Rugby union

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 club, Obras Sanitarias is mostly known for its basketball

Basketball

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 team.

History

Obras Sanitarias was founded in 1917 by employees of the state enterprise

Government-owned corporation

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 Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (translatable in English to "Sanitation Works of the Nation"). In 1978, Obras inaugurated the indoor arena Estadio Obras Sanitarias and, two years later, the first synthetic field hockey

Field hockey

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 pitch in South America.

Sports

Sports played at the club include: basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

, field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, swimming

Swimming (sport)

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, tennis

Tennis

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, volleyball

Volleyball

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 and chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

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Basketball

Obras Sanitarias plays in the professional Liga Nacional de Básquetbol

Liga Nacional de Básquetbol

The Liga Nacional de Básquet is the top level of the Argentine basketball league system. The league is controlled by the Basketball Clubs' Association...

 (Argentine first division). Its home games are played at Estadio Obras Sanitarias and Polideportivo Municipal de San Rafael

Polideportivo Municipal de San Rafael

Polideportivo Municipal de San Rafael is an indoor arena in Mendoza, Argentina. It is primarily used for basketball and is one of the home arenas of the Obras Sanitarias along with Arena Obras Sanitarias. It holds 3,500 people....

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Obras Sanitarias, along Brazilian Esporte Clube Sírio, were the only two South American team that won the Intercontinental Cup

Intercontinental Cup (basketball)

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. Obras did so in 1983, defeating Italian Jollycolombani Cantù

Pallacanestro Cantù

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Current roster

External links

• Official website