During the Parade of Nations at the

2019 Pan American Games opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2019 Pan American Games took place on Friday July 26, 2019, at the Estadio Nacional del Perú in Lima, Peru, and ran from 20:00 to 23:05 PET. The ceremony was entitled "Amazing Peru!" and featured a stage designed as P ...

, on July 26, 2019, 41 athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into Estadio Nacional in the host city of

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

, Peru

March order

Athletes entered the stadium in an order dictated by tradition. As the host of the first Pan American Games,

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entered first. The

Peruvian Peruvians (''/peruanas'') are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 ...

delegation entered last, representing the host nation. The remaining countries entered in Spanish alphabetical order as per

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protocol.

List

References

{{Pan American Games national flag bearers by year 2019 Pan American Games Parades in Peru