South American Free Trade Area

Union of South American Nations Unión de Naciones Suramericanas  (Spanish) União de Nações Sul-Americanas  (Portuguese) Unie van Zuid-Amerikaanse Naties  (Dutch)
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Motto: "From Vision to Action"
UNASUR members (dark green)
Administrative centers	Quito, Ecuador (Secretariat) Cochabamba, Bolivia (Parliament)
Largest cities	List São Paulo Lima Bogotá Rio de Janeiro Santiago Caracas Buenos Aires Salvador Brasília Fortaleza
Official languages	Portuguese Spanish English Dutch
Religion	82% Roman catholicism 8% Other christians 5% Irreligious 5% other faiths
Demonym	South American
Type	Continental union
Membership	12 members Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela 2 observers Mexico Panama
Leaders
• President	Mauricio Macri
• Secretary General	Ernesto Samper
Legislature	South American Parliament
Establishment	Formation
• Cusco Declaration	8 December 2004
• Constitutive Treaty	23 May 2008
• Treaty in force	11 March 2011
Area
• Total	17,715,335 km2 (6,839,929 sq mi)
• Water (%)	8.91
Population
• 2015 estimate	418,175,687
• Density	23.6/km2 (61.1/sq mi) (194th)
GDP (PPP)	2014 estimate
• Total	$6.564 trillion (4th)
• Per capita	$15,855 (76th)
GDP (nominal)	2014 estimate
• Total	$4.173 trillion (4th)
• Per capita	$10,080 (69th)
Gini (2014)	48.8 high
HDI (2017)	0.751 high
Currency	12 currencies Peso Boliviano Real Peso Peso Dollar Dollar Guaraní Sol Dollar Peso Bolívar
Time zone	(UTC-2 to -6)
Calling code	see list
Internet TLD	12 TLDs .ar .bo .br .cl .co .ec .gy .py .pe .sr .uy .ve
Website unasur.int/en

The Union of South American Nations (USAN; Spanish: Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, UNASUR; Portuguese: União de Nações Sul-Americanas, UNASUL; Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Amerikaanse Naties, UZAN; and sometimes referred to as the South American Union) is an intergovernmental regional organization comprising 12 South American countries.

The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty was signed on 23 May 2008, at the Third Summit of Heads of State, held in Brasília, Brazil. According to the Constitutive Treaty, the Union's headquarters will be located in Quito, Ecuador. On 1 December 2010, Uruguay became the ninth state to ratify the UNASUR treaty, thus giving the union full legality. As the Constitutive Treaty entered into force on 11 March 2011, UNASUR became a legal entity during a meeting of Foreign Ministers in Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador, where they had laid the foundation stone for the Secretariat Headquarters. The South American Parliament will be located in Cochabamba, Bolivia, while the headquarters of its bank, the Bank of the South are located in Caracas, Venezuela.

On 4 May 2010, at a heads of state summit held in Campana, 75 km (47 mi) north of Buenos Aires, former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner was unanimously elected the first Secretary General of UNASUR for a two-year term. The new post was conceived as a first step towards the creation of a permanent bureaucratic body for a supranational union, which will eventually replace the political bodies of Mercosur and CAN. The headquarters of the secretariat is located in Quito.