JUDUCA (Juegos Deportivos de Universidades Centro America) are a biennial multi-sport competition aimed at promoting sports in public universities in Central America. The meet was first held in 2006 at the University of Costa Rica. Since then, JUDUCA has become an important sporting event among young Central American college athletes.
Student-athletes compete in 10 events: chess, athletics, basketball, football, futsal, volleyball, karate, tae kwon do, judo, and baseball. JUDUCA hosts 21 public universities from the 7 Central American countries. In 2016, JUDUCA will also invite some Caribbean nations.
JUDUCA 2016 will be in Honduras.
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