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
TypeSports federation
HeadquartersMar Del Plata, Argentina
Membership
33 National Paralympic Committees
Official language
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
President
 Julio César Ávil
Websitehttp://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.

NationCodeNational Paralympic CommitteeCreatedRef.
 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 Paraguay 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

References
  1. IPC Style Guide Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  2. "Americas Paralympic Committee - About us". Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  3. National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  4. Paralympic boost for T&T Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, trinidadexpress.com, December 1, 2010
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