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Praia Clube

Southeast region / Minas Gerais / Uberlândia

Booking and enquiries

  • Praia Clube Praça Primo Crosara, 505, Bairro Copacabana Uberlândia, Minas Gerais
  • Get in touch with: Mrs. Tatiana Flores Rodrigues +55 34 3239 2637/ +55 34 99174 6311 udiesportiva@uberlandia.mg.gov.br; tatianaflores@uberlandia.mg.gov.br

Services

  • Café on site
  • Controlled access and security personnel on site
  • First aid room
  • Physiotherapy and massage room
  • Restaurant on site
  • Sauna room
  • Steam room
  • Strength and conditioning room

Partner training camps

  • SESI Gravatás Complexo Municipal Virgílio Galassi Faculdade de Educação Física da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - Ginásio IV

Founded in 1935, Praia Clube is located in the city of Uberlândia in the state of Minas Gerais (Southeast Region of Brazil). The venue has infrastructure for training Basketball, Football, Judo, Swimming, Tennis, and Volleyball, as well as having experience in hosting national sports events.

It has two gyms, a swimming pool, a room for judo, a natural grass field, rooms for strength and conditioning, first aid, physiotherapy and massage, and sauna and steam rooms. There is also a restaurant and snack shop. The access is controlled by a security team. The venue cannot be used on an exclusive basis by the Committee.

 

Experience in sporting events:

Among the events hosted at the venue, the main ones include the Brazilian Women's Volleyball Super League (2013), the Circuito Nacional Correios de Tênis (2011) (a national tennis competition), and the Regional Brazilian Judo Championship (2010).

 

About the City:

Uberlândia is a city in the state of Minas Gerais. It is located 845km from Rio de Janeiro. The city has a population of 604,013 (IBGE) and sits at an average altitude of 863m above sea level. The most notable of its natural attractions include its ecological parks, which, together add up to approximately 2.8 million square meters of green area.

SPORTS OFFERED AT THE CAMP AND SPORT VENUE SPECIFICATIONS

Olympic sports

Aquatics: Swimming

Pool
Pool length: 50m
Pool width: 25m
Pool depth max: 2.1m
Pool depth min: 2.1m
Lane width: 2.5m

Basketball

GYMNASIUM 2 - WALTERCIDES BORGES
Number of courts (28m x 15m): 1
Clear height: 10m
Wooden floor
Line markings: painted lines
Maximum lighting level: 1000 lux
Timing device

Football

Pitches
Number of grass training pitches: 1
Floodlights

Judo

COMPLEXO CÍCERO NAVES
Number of training area: 3
Concrete floor

Tennis

Courts
Number of indoor clay courts: 2
Number of outdoor clay courts: 15

Volleyball

GYMNASIUM 1 - ORANIDES BORGES
Number of courts (34m x 19m): 1
Clear height: 10m
Synthetic finish over wooden floor
Line markings: painted lines
Maximum lighting level: 1100 lux  
 

Distance Chart

Distances
Nearest airport Aeroporto de Uberlândia - Ten. Cel. Av. César Bombonato - Uberlândia/MG
Distance to nearest airport (km) 11
Nearest port Porto do Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Distance to nearest port (km) 960
Distance to nearest major hospital (km) 9

Climate information - Uberlândia


Climate information - Uberlândia

 

Notes:
1. Daily minimum temperatures may reach 9°C from May to July.
2. Relative humidity may be around 20% in June and July.
3. Average values of past 10 years.
 
Source: INMET

Climate information - Rio de Janeiro


Climate information - Rio de Janeiro

 

Notes:
1. Daily minimum temperature may reach 14°C from May to July.
2. Average values of past 10 years.
 
Source: INMET
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