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Event Information:
Electric Daisy Carnival usually has
multiple stages full of a variety of
electronic dance music, talented
performance artists and visual
delights. The Electric Daisy
Carnival Puerto Rico returned for
2010 with an even larger and more
complete line-up. Held on August 28,
the venue was the Sixto Escobar
Stadium at Puerta de Tierra, San
Juan, and was such a success the
event was immediately planned to
return again in .
Estadio Sixto Escobar is a
multi-purpose stadium in San Juan,
Puerto Rico. It is currently used
mostly for soccer matches. The
stadium was opened on November 12,
1935. The Cincinnati Reds conducted
spring training at the stadium in
1936. The Miami Marlins were
transferred to San Juan for the 1961
season and opened the season at
Sixto Escobar Stadium. Attendance
was poor and the team was moved to
Charleston, WV on May 19, 1961. Many
events of the 1979 Pan American
Games were held at the stadium. In
April 1938, the Legislative Assembly
of Puerto Rico voted to name the
stadium and surrounding park in
honor of Sixto Escobar, a Puerto
Rican professional boxer who became
Puerto Rico's first world champion.
The stadium was repaired and
improved to accommodate the new
tenant soccer team River Plate
Puerto Rico.
San
Juan is one of Puerto Rico's most
important seaports, and is the
island's manufacturing, financial,
cultural, and tourism center. The
population of the Metropolitan
Statistical Area, including San Juan
and the municipalities of Bayamón,
Guaynabo, Cataño, Canóvanas, Caguas,
Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Carolina and
Trujillo Alto, is about 2 million
inhabitants; thus, about half the
population of Puerto Rico now lives
and works in this area. San Juan is
also a principal city of the San
Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined
Statistical Area. The city has been
the host of numerous important
events within the sports community,
including the 1979 Pan American
Games, 1966 Central American and
Caribbean Games, 2006 and 2009 World
Baseball Classics, the Caribbean
Series and the Special Olympics and
MLB San Juan Series in 2010.
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