The stadium opened on October 25, 1958 and was constructed by the engineer Bienvenido Martinez Brea.

[1] Estadio Cibao seats 18,077 spectators, making it the largest baseball stadium in the Dominican Republic.

In 2007 President Leonel Fernández initiated a renovation project of the stadium in time to host the 2008 Caribbean Series.

[5] The renovation, priced at $110,320,921RD (~ $3,065,000USD), was a part of a larger public works project that totaled $5,750,000,000RD pesos.

Yet, this was the second time in the Dominican Republic that series was played outside Estadio Quisqueya (the first was in 1976, when the venues were split).