PanAm Aquatics

PanAm Aquatics or PAQ, (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]

PanAm Aquatics

Sport	Aquatic Sports
Membership	52 federations
Founded	1927; 98 years ago (1927)
Affiliation	World Aquatics
Official website
panamaquatics.com

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) 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

• PanAm Aquatics Championships
• Artistic Swimming: Pan American Artistic Swimming Championships
• Swimming: UANA Swimming Cup
• Water Polo: UANA Water Polo Cup

See also

• FINA

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.

External links

• UANA
• CONSANAT