The Central American Sports Organization (acronym: ORDECA; in

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: Organización Deportiva Centroamericana) is an international organization which represents the current 8 National Olympic Committees of the Central American region. It is affiliated with the

Pan American Sports Organization The Panam Sports (Formerly Pan American Sports Organization; es, link=no, Organización Deportiva Panamericana; pt, link=no, Organizacão Depórtiva Panamericana; french: Organisation Sportive PanAméricaine) is an international organization whi ...

. It was established on 15 July 1972. It is recognised by the

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

(IOC) that approved its creation at the Congress of the XX Olympiad, held in Munich, Germany, in 1972.

Members

The five founding members were the Olympic Committees of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama. At a later date, Nicaragua and Belize were also included to raise the number of members to seven, Puerto Rico was also included as a candidate member. The eight Olympic Committee members are: *

Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association The Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association, formerly the British Honduras Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association, (IOC code: BIZ) is the National Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Association of Belize, responsible for the ...

Costa Rican Olympic Committee Olympic Committee of Costa Rica ( es, Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica, IOC code: CRC) is the National Olympic Committee representing Costa Rica. The committee was created in 1953 although Costa Rica first competed at the Olympics in 1936 ...

El Salvador Olympic Committee The El Salvador Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico de El Salvador) (IOC code: ESA) is the National Olympic Committee for El Salvador. It was founded in 1925, and officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1938. See al ...

Guatemalan Olympic Committee The Guatemalan Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico Guatemalteco, abbreviated as COG) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Guatemala and a part of the International Olympic Committee and PASO. It was form ...

Honduran Olympic Committee The Honduran Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico Hondureño) is the Committee that represents the Honduras athletes in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), created in 1956 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that sa ...

Nicaraguan Olympic Committee The Nicaraguan Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico Nicaragüense) is the National Olympic Committee representing Nicaragua at the Olympics. It is also the body responsible for Nicaragua representation at the Olympic Games. History The Nic ...

Panama Olympic Committee The Panama Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico de Panamá) is the National Olympic Committee representing Panama. It is also the body responsible for Panama's representation at the Olympic Games. History Comité Olímpico de Panamá was f ...

Puerto Rico Olympic Committee The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (COPUR, es, Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico) is the National Olympic Committee for Puerto Rico. It oversees Olympic-sports in Puerto Rico, and selects the Olympic team which represents the island. It was founde ...

(candidate)

Administration

The ORDECA is the governing body of the

Central American Games The Central American Games ( es, Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos) are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial (every 4 years), typically in the first year after Summer Olympics. The Games are open for member federation ...

. The then President of Olympic Committee of Guatemala Luis Canella Gutiérrez, was elected the first President of ORDECA.

References

{{sport-org-stub Sports organizations established in 1972 Sports governing bodies in North America