Americas Paralympic Committee

Americas Paralympic Committee (acronym: APC; Spanish: Comité Paralímpico de Américas ; Portuguese: Comitê Paralímpico das Américas ; Catalan: Comitè Paralímpic de les Amèriques ; Esperanto: Komitato Paralimpika de la Amerikoj ; French: Comité Paralympique des Amériques) is an international IPC regional committee^[1] which represents the current 33 National Paralympic Committees of the North American and South American continents.^[2] It is affiliated to/with the International Paralympic Committee and its affiliated bodies.

Americas Paralympic Committee

Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	Mar Del Plata, Argentina
Membership	33 National Paralympic Committees
Official language	Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
President	Julio César Ávil
Website	http://www.americasparalympic.org/

APC is the body that organizes and oversees the Parapan American Games held every four years in the year before the Summer Paralympics.

Member countries

In the following table, the year in which the NPC was recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NPC was created.

Nation	Code	National Paralympic Committee	Created	Ref.
Antigua and Barbuda	ANT	Antigua and Barbuda Paralympic Committee		[3]
Argentina	ARG	Argentine Paralympic Committee	2004	[3]
Aruba	ARU	Aruba Paralympic Committee		[3]
Barbados	BAR	Paralympic Association of Barbados		[3]
Bermuda	BER	Bermuda Paralympic Association		[3]
Brazil	BRA	Brazilian Paralympic Committee	1995	[3]
Canada	CAN	Canadian Paralympic Committee	1981	[3]
Chile	CHI	Paralympic Committee of Chile		[3]
Colombia	COL	Colombian Paralympic Committee	2001	[3]
Costa Rica	CRC	Paralympic Committee of Costa Rica		[3]
Cuba	CUB	Cuban Paralympic Committee		[3]
Dominican Republic	DOM	Paralympic Committee of the Dominican Republic		[3]
Ecuador	ECU	Ecuadorian Paralympic Sport Federation		[3]
El Salvador	ESA	Paralympic Committee of El Salvador		[3]
Grenada	GRN	Grenada Paralympic Committee		[3]
Guatemala	GUA	Guatemalan Paralympic Committee		[3]
Guyana	GUY	Guyana Paralympic Committee		[3]
Haiti	HAI	National Paralympic Committee of Haiti		[3]
Honduras	HON	Honduran Paralympic Committee		[3]
Jamaica	JAM	Jamaica Paralympic Association		[3]
Mexico	MEX	Mexican Paralympic Committee		[3]
Nicaragua	NCA	Nicaraguan Paralympic Committee		[3]
Panama	PAN	Paralympic Committee of Panama		[3]
Paraguay	PAR	Paraguayan Paralympic Committee	2018	[3]
Peru	PER	National Paralympic Committee Peru		[3]
Puerto Rico	PUR	Paralympic Committee of Puerto Rico		[3]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VIN	National Paralympic Committee St Vincent & the Grenadines		[3]
Suriname	SUR	National Paralympic Committee of Suriname		[3]
Trinidad and Tobago	TRI	Trinidad & Tobago Paralympic Committee	2009	[3][4]
United States	USA	United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee	2001	[3]
Uruguay	URU	Uruguayan Paralympic Committee		[3]
Venezuela	VEN	Venezuelan Paralympic Committee		[3]
United States Virgin Islands	ISV	National Paralympic Committee US Virgin Islands		[3]

See also

• Pan American Sports Organization
• Parapan American Games
• Pan American Games