Americas Paralympic Committee

APC, Comité Paralímpico de Américas

Last modified: 2023-06-10 by zachary harden
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image by Zachary Harden, 05 November 2020

• Overview
• Members
• The Flag

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Overview

"The Americas Paralympic Committee (acronym: APC; Spanish: Comité Paralímpico de Américas) is an international IPC regional committee which represents the current 26 National Paralympic Committees of the North American and South American continents. 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."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas_Paralympic_Committee
For additional information go to Americas Paralympic (official websites)
http://www.paralympic.org/americas-paralympic-committee
Esteban Rivera, 07 February 2016

Members

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Aruba
• Barbados
• Bermuda
• Brazil
• Canada
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United States
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• United States Virgin Islands

The Flag

vertical variant; image by Zachary Harden, 05 November 2020

The flag is the logo on a white horizontal flag, as seen here.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/11/mississauga-won-t-support-toronto-s-potential-olympic-bid_n_8120334.html
Esteban Rivera, 07 February 2016