CELAC

Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
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Map of North, Central and South America indicating CELAC members.
Official languages	Spanish Portuguese French English Dutch
Demonym	Latin American Caribbean
Membership	33 member states
Leaders
• President pro tempore	Salvador Sánchez Cerén
Establishment	February 23, 2010 (2010-02-23)
Area
• Total	20,454,918 km² (7,897,688 sq mi)
Population
• 2011 estimate	591,038,580
• Density	29/km² (75.1/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2014 estimate
• Total	$9.144 trillion^a
• Per capita	$15,175^a
Gini	49.6 high
HDI (2011)	0.721 high
Internet TLD	.lat^b
Does not include Barbados, Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica and Suriname. Proposed.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Spanish: Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, CELAC; Portuguese: Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos; French: Communauté des États Latino-Américains et Caribéens; Dutch: Gemeenschap van Latijns-Amerikaanse en Caraïbische Staten) is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states thought out on February 23, 2010, at the Rio Group–Caribbean Community Unity Summit, and created on December 3, 2011, in Caracas, Venezuela, with the signature of The Declaration of Caracas. It consists of 33 sovereign countries in the Americas representing roughly 600 million people. Due to the focus of the organization on Latin American and Caribbean countries, other countries and territories in the Americas, Canada and the United States, as well as the overseas territories in the Americas of France (Overseas departments and territories of France), the Netherlands (Dutch Caribbean), Denmark (Greenland) and the United Kingdom (British Overseas Territories) are not included.

CELAC is an example of a decade-long push for deeper integration within Latin America. CELAC was created to deepen Latin American integration and by some to reduce the significant influence of the United States on the politics and economics of Latin America. It is seen as an alternative to the Organization of American States (OAS), the regional body that was founded by United States and 21 other Latin American nations originally as a countermeasure to potential Soviet influence in the region.

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