Scotiabank Aquatics Center
The Scotiabank Aquatics Center is an aquatics center built for the 2011 [Pan American Games] in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. It was opened June 22, 2011, built at a cost of $USD31.7m. It is the most modern aquatic complex of its kind in Latin America, and considered to be the second best in the world by the Fédération Internationale de Natation. It has a permanent capacity of 3,593, but had a capacity of 5,000 spectators for the Pan American Games.
The outside of the building is shaped like a wave. It contains two 50m Olympic sized pools and a diving tank. During the 2011 Pan American Games, it hosted the Swimming at the 2011 [Pan American Games|swimming], diving, synchronized swimming and water polo events. After the Pan American Games, it is used as a high-performance training centre, and was a bid for the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, losing to Budapest.
The center is sponsored by Scotiabank, a Canadian-based bank, which operates in Mexico under the name Scotiabank Inverlat.