PanAm Aquatics

Swimming association for the Americas
PanAm Aquatics
SportAquatic Sports
Membership52 federations
Founded1927; 97 years ago (1927)
AffiliationWorld Aquatics
Official website
panamaquatics.com

PanAm Aquatics (formerly Spanish: Unión Americana de Natación, English: Swimming Union of the Americas, popularly known by its acronym UANA or ASUA)[1] is the swimming continental association for the Americas (i.e. it oversees international aquatics competition within North and South America).[2]

ASUA was founded during the 1948 Olympics in London, UK.

Organization

ASUA is divided into 4 Zones, each with its own body which organizes competitions.[3] The bodies that oversees these Zones, are:

  • Zone 1: CONSANAT—the South American Swimming Confederation (Confederación Sudamericana de Natación).
  • Zone 2: CCCAN—the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Confederation (Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Natación).
  • Zone 3: United States Aquatic Sports (USAS)
  • Zone 4: Aquatic Federation of Canada

Member countries (with FINA abbreviations), by zone:

Zone Confederation Countries
1 CONSANAT
(12)
 Argentina (ARG)
 Bolivia (BOL)
 Brazil (BRA)
 Colombia (COL) 		 Chile (CHI)
 Ecuador (ECU)
 Guyana (GUY)
 Paraguay (PAR) 		 Peru (PER)
 Suriname (SUR)
 Uruguay (URU)
 Venezuela (VEN)
2 CCCAN
(29)
 Anguilla (AGU)
 Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)
 Aruba (ARU)
 Bahamas (BAH)
 Barbados (BAR)
 Bermuda (BER)
 British Virgin Islands (IVB)
 Cayman Islands (CAY)
 Costa Rica (CRC)
 Cuba (CUB)
 Curaçao (CUR) 		 Dominica (DMA)
 Dominican Republic (DOM)
 El Salvador (ESA)
 Grenada (GRN)
 Guatemala (GUA)
 Haiti (HAI)
 Honduras (HON)
 Jamaica (JAM)
 Mexico (MEX) 		 Nicaragua (NCA)
 Panama (PAN)
 Puerto Rico (PUR)
 Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)
 Saint Lucia (LCA)
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN)
 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)
 Turks and Caicos Islands (TCN)
United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands (ISV)
3 USAS (1)   USA (USA)
4 AFC (1)   Canada (CAN)

Note:  Belize (BZE) is also a member of ASUA; however, as of June 2016 it is not (yet) listed as a CCCAN member,[4] the regional confederation they geographically belong to.

Competitions

See also

References

  1. ^ SwimSwam (2022-06-17). "PanAm Aquatics Hosting Extraordinary Congress On Rebranding Vote". SwimSwam. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  2. ^ About page from the ASUA website (uana-aquatics.org); retrieved 2014-06-19.
  3. ^ Governance page of the ASUA website; retrieved 2016-06-16.
  4. ^ CCCAN member page from the CCCAN website; retrieved 2016-06-16.
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