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the "calzada de tlalpan", over 63,590 meter squared. That on which the beautiful Estadio Azteca now stands was no easy task! The spot picked to construct this massive stadium was covered by rock left by the eruption of the Xitle Volcano. The gigantic mass of rock was full of extinguished lava holes that stopped even the hope of cementing the structure of the stadiumbecause each of the geologic remains were constructed like a chimney each with it's own cavern. This led to the existing possibility that many of the "tubes" could be connected to others which were still active which could make cementation costs icalulabe. Each would have to be flled or injected with cement. Each of the architects and engineers in charge decided to polish off the area to get a frm surface on which to construct. Ten architects, thirty four engineers, fifteen technicians and eight hundred construction workers from all specialties worked daily in the project.
The estadio azteca is a structure that brings pride to all people who put work in during the seven million hours of manpower. The united effrt used over eight thousand tons of beams and twelve hundred tons of steel.
Thereis easy acces to the stadium such as fast ramps on the avenida de insurgents, la calzada de tlapar y al anillo periferico with no wo
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