Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation

CACAC

Formation	1967
Type	Sports federation
Membership	34 member + 5 observer federations
Official language	English and Spanish
President	Alain Jean-Pierre

The Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (CACAC) is a confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Central America and the Caribbean. Membership of the Confederation is open to all National Governing Bodies for Athletics in any country or territory in the region which is affiliated to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Other countries may be granted observer status and may, with permission of the Congress, be allowed to compete in open championships. They will, however, not be entitled to vote at the Congress.

The Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC) should not be confused with the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) established later in 1988, being one of the official area associations of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF), and also including federations from Canada and the USA. The CACAC considers the NACAC as parent organization, and the CACAC constitution regulates that the IAAF Area Representative of the NACAC is an ex-officio member of its Permanent Executive Council.

With the initiative of the Mexican representative Mr. Carlos de Anda Dominguez, at the 10th Central American and Caribbean Games held in June 1966 in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the need for the formation of a Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation was discussed as well as a proposal for organizing the first Central American and Caribbean Championships.

The first Championships were held on the 5th and 6 May 1967, in Jalapa, Veracruz, México. Discussion about the formation of the Confederation was started at this time.