Americas Paralympic Committee

{{Short description|International regional committee representing North and South America}}

{{Infobox Organization

|name = Americas Paralympic Committee

|image = AmericasParalympicCommittee Logo.svg

|size = 200px

|motto =

|type = Sports federation

|formation =

|headquarters = Mar Del Plata, Argentina

|membership = 33 National Paralympic Committees

|leader_title = President

|leader_name = {{flagicon|COL}} Julio César Ávil

|language = Spanish, English, Portuguese, French

|website= http://www.americasparalympic.org/

|}}

Americas Paralympic Committee (acronym: APC; {{langx|es|Comité Paralímpico de Américas}} ; {{langx|pt|Comitê Paralímpico das Américas}} ; {{langx|ca|Comitè Paralímpic de les Amèriques}} ; {{langx|eo|Komitato Paralimpika de la Amerikoj}} ; {{langx|fr|Comité Paralympique des Amériques}}) is an international IPC regional committee[http://www.paralympic.org/export/sites/default/IPC/Reference_Documents/IPC_Style_Guide.pdf IPC Style Guide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619181915/http://paralympic.org/export/sites/default/IPC/Reference_Documents/IPC_Style_Guide.pdf |date=2010-06-19 }}, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) which represents the current 33 National Paralympic Committees of the North American and South American continents.{{cite web |url=http://www.paralympic.org/americas-paralympic-committee/about |title=Americas Paralympic Committee - About us |accessdate=September 5, 2015}} It is affiliated to/with the International Paralympic Committee and its affiliated bodies.

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.

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! Nation !! Code !! National Paralympic Committee !! Created !!Ref.

| ANT

| Antigua and Barbuda Paralympic Committee

| [http://www.paralympic.org/IPC/Contacts/NPCs/index.html National Paralympic Committees (NPCs)], International Paralympic Committee (IPC)

| ARG

| Argentine Paralympic Committee

| 2004

| ARU

| Aruba Paralympic Committee

| BAR

| Paralympic Association of Barbados

| BER

| Bermuda Paralympic Association

| BRA

| Brazilian Paralympic Committee

| 1995

| CAN

| Canadian Paralympic Committee

| 1981

| CHI

| Paralympic Committee of Chile

| COL

| Colombian Paralympic Committee

| 2001

| CRC

| Paralympic Committee of Costa Rica

| CUB

| Cuban Paralympic Committee

| DOM

| Paralympic Committee of the Dominican Republic

| ECU

| Ecuadorian Paralympic Sport Federation

| ESA

| Paralympic Committee of El Salvador

| GRN

| Grenada Paralympic Committee

| GUA

| Guatemalan Paralympic Committee

| GUY

| Guyana Paralympic Committee

| HAI

| National Paralympic Committee of Haiti

| HON

| Honduran Paralympic Committee

| JAM

| Jamaica Paralympic Association

| MEX

| Mexican Paralympic Committee

| NCA

| Nicaraguan Paralympic Committee

| PAN

| Paralympic Committee of Panama

| PAR

| Paraguayan Paralympic Committee

| 2018

| PER

| National Paralympic Committee Peru

| PUR

| Paralympic Committee of Puerto Rico

| VIN

| National Paralympic Committee St Vincent & the Grenadines

| SUR

| National Paralympic Committee of Suriname

| TRI

| Trinidad & Tobago Paralympic Committee

| 2009

| [http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Paralympic_boost_for_T_T-111095084.html Paralympic boost for T&T] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203015612/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Paralympic_boost_for_T_T-111095084.html |date=2010-12-03 }}, trinidadexpress.com, December 1, 2010

| USA

| United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee

| 2001

| URU

| Uruguayan Paralympic Committee

| VEN

| Venezuelan Paralympic Committee

| ISV

| National Paralympic Committee US Virgin Islands