22°58′45″S43°24′48″W / 22.97917°S 43.41333°W /-22.97917; -43.41333Riocentro is an exhibition andconvention center located inRio de Janeiro,Brazil. Built in 1977, it is the largest exhibition center inLatin America.
On April 30, 1981, during aMay Day music concert, Riocentro was the target of a terrorist attack by hardliner members of theBrazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985).[1][2][3] Sergeant Guilherme Pereira do Rosário and then-Captain Wilson Dias Machado, nowadays a Colonel, were responsible for detonating two bombs at the venue. Around 9 p.m., however, one of the bombs exploded in the lap of Sergeant Rosário, killing him and seriously wounding Machado. A second bomb exploded a few miles away at a powerhouse responsible for providing electrical energy to Riocentro; it was thrown over the fence and exploded on the ground, and the electric power supply was never interrupted that evening. The government immediately blamed left-wing radicals for the attack. This theory had no support at the time of the event and nowadays there is strong evidence that the attack was planned by the hardline sector of the government to convince the moderate sector that the left-wing urban guerrilla was still active and that a new wave of political repression was required. This episode marked the decline of the military regime in Brazil, which would officially end four years later.[citation needed]
In 1992, Riocentro hosted theUnited NationsEarth Summit.
In 2007, Riocentro hosted a variety of events for thePan American Games in several pavilions. Capacity of the pavilions ranges from 2,000 people to 4,500 people. When Rio was bidding for the2016 Summer Olympics andParalympics which it won in October 2009, four of its six pavilions were proposed as venues. During these games, Pavilion 2 hosted the Olympicboxing competitions, Pavilion 3 hosted theOlympic andParalympic table tennis competitions, Pavilion 4 hosted thebadminton competitions, and Pavilion 6 hosted the Olympicweightlifting and Paralympicpowerlifting events. During the2014 FIFA World Cup, Riocentro was utilised as the headquarters of theInternational Broadcast Centre (IBC).
In November 2022, the arena hosted the Challengers Stage and the Legends Stage of theIEM Rio Major 2022, the eighteenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major Championship.
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