Americas Paralympic Committee

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

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.

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

  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.