2007 Pan American Games torch relay explained

Size:	150
Host City:	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Distance:	11,000 km
Torch Bearers:	2,500
Start Date:	June 5, 2007
End Date:	July 13, 2007
Number Of Torches:	500

The 2007 Pan American Games torch relay was a 39-day torch run, from June 5 to July 13, 2007, held prior to the 2007 Pan American Games. On June 4, the torch was lit at the torch lighting ceremony in Teotihuacán, Mexico. The flame was then taken by a Brazilian Air Force craft to Santa Cruz Cabrália, Bahia, Brazil, where the torch relay began.^{[1] [2]}

The relay toured through 42 Brazilian cities - each one representing a different country in the Pan American Games. Over 2,500 torchbearers carried the flame over 11,000 kilometers.^[3] The relay originating torchbearer was Wilson Carneiro, the first Brazilian medalist at the Pan American Games,^[4] white the final torchbearer was Naiane Freire da Purificação.^[5]

Route

Day	Date	State	Cities	Representing country
1	June 5	Bahia	Santa Cruz Cabrália^1	Bahamas
			Porto Seguro
2	June 6	Goiás	Goiânia	Dominican Republic
3	June 7	Minas Gerais	Ouro Preto	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
			Belo Horizonte	Canada
4	June 8	Espírito Santo	Vitória	Costa Rica
5	June 9	Bahia	Salvador	Cuba
6	June 10	Sergipe	Canindé de São Francisco^1	Antigua and Barbuda
			Aracaju
7	June 11	Distrito Federal	Brasília	Mexico
8	June 12	Pernambuco	Recife	Venezuela
9	June 13	Alagoas	Maceió	Barbados
10	June 14	Paraíba	João Pessoa	Guatemala
11	June 15	Pernambuco	Fernando de Noronha	Cayman Islands
		Rio Grande do Norte	Natal	Ecuador
12	June 16	Ceará	Fortaleza	Argentina
13	June 17	Piauí	Teresina	Netherlands Antilles
14	June 18	Tocantins	Palmas	Bermuda
15	June 19	Maranhão	São Luis	Jamaica
16	June 20	Pará	Belém	Colombia
17	June 21	Amapá	Macapá	Suriname
18	June 22	Roraima	Boa Vista	Guyana
19	June 23	Amazonas	Manaus	Aruba
20	June 24	Acre	Rio Branco	Bolivia
21	June 25	Rondônia	Porto Velho	Belize
22	June 26	Mato Grosso	Cuiabá	Nicaragua
23	June 27		Campo Novo do Parecis^1	-
24	June 28	Mato Grosso do Sul	Campo Grande	Dominica
25	June 29	Rio Grande do Sul	Porto Alegre	Uruguay
26	June 30	Paraná	Foz do Iguaçu	Paraguay
27	July 1	Santa Catarina	Florianópolis	Puerto Rico
28	July 2		Blumenau	Trinidad and Tobago
			Balneário Camboriú	El Salvador
29	July 3	Paraná	Curitiba	Chile
30	July 4	No travelling
31	July 5	São Paulo	Guarulhos	Grenada
32	July 6		Santos	Honduras
33	July 7		Americana^1	Haiti
			Campinas
34	July 8		São Paulo	United States of America
35	July 9	Rio de Janeiro	Quilombo Campinho da Independência^1	British Virgin Islands
			Parati
			Angra dos Reis	Virgin Islands
36	July 10		Nova Iguaçu^1	Panama
			Duque de Caxias
			Petrópolis	Saint Kitts and Nevis
37	July 11		Macaé^1	Saint Lucia
			Rio das Ostras^1
			Búzios
38	July 12		Niterói	Peru
39	July 13		Rio de Janeiro	Brazil

¹ denotes municipality

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: From the Abode of the Gods to the landmark of the Discovery of Brazil. https://web.archive.org/web/20070826082049/http://www.tochario2007.com.br/cidades_in.shtml. dead. 26 August 2007. 15 January 2019. Rio 2007.
2. Web site: Pan American Games Flame is Burning. 4 June 2007. 15 January 2009. Around the Rings. 26 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210626221000/http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__28225/Title__Pan-American-Games-Flame-is-Burning/292/Articles. dead.
3. Web site: Esporte: Revezamento Da Tocha Pan 2007. Textual. Portuguese. 2019-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20190115235945/http://textual.com.br/case/esporte-revezamento-da-tocha-pan-2007/. 2019-01-15. dead.
4. Web site: Primeiro medalhista brasileiro em Jogos Pan-Americanos abre revezamento da tocha. 31 May 2007. 14 January 2019. Laura Rodrigues. O Globo Online. Portuguese.
5. Web site: Milhares de pessoas recebem com festa a chegada do Revezamento da Tocha Pan-americana ao Estádio do Maracanã. https://web.archive.org/web/20071010093736/http://www.tochario2007.com.br/noticia114.shtml. dead. 10 October 2007. 13 July 2007. 15 January 2019. Rio 2007. Portuguese.