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veral sports centers, the main one being in the area of the Palogrande Stadium. The city has a professional football team, Once Caldas, which is housed in the Palogrande Stadium, winner of the prestigious South American Copa Libertadores 2004, and 4-time champion of Category First A of Colombia, ranking eighth in the tournament's history. Manizales has also had two professional basketball teams Caldas Bancafetero Aces and Wise Caldas which were champions of the Colombian Professional Basketball tournament in 1989 and 2000 respectively, both played in the Coliseo Mayor Jorge Arango Uribe. The city also has indoor soccer presence through the futsal cup microfútbol in both male with Real Caldas FS and female with Real Caldas, and the FIFA Futsal League in Club Deportivo Linear which won the 2011-II championship, all these are played in the Coliseo Menor Vargas Ramón Marín venue. Manizales has also been home to sporting events such as the Fourth National Games in 1936, South American Football U-20 in 1987, the Copa America 2001, the South American U-20 2005 and most importantly World Cup 2011 U-20. Education Manizales is an important regional cultural and educational center. It has more universities per capita than any other city in Colombia.[citation needed] The city has a student population of some 30,000 that attend 7 colleges and universities: Universidad Nacional de Colombia Universidad de Manizales Corporación Universitaria Remington Universidad Autónoma de Manizales Universidad Católica de Manizales Universidad Luis Amigó Universidad de Caldas Twin towns – sister cities See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in South America Manizales is twin