The Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC)[1] is a confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Central America and the Caribbean.

Other countries may be granted observer status and may, with permission of the Congress, be allowed to compete in open championships.

With the initiative of the Mexican representative Carlos de Anda Dominguez,[4] 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.

[2] In Winnipeg, Canada, during the celebration of the V Pan American Games, a tentative constitution was approved, a permanent committee elected and the site of the second Central American and Caribbean Championships was awarded to Cali, Colombia, for August 1969, with Havana, Cuba, as the alternate site.

[5] He follows Víctor López of Puerto Rico, who was elected firstly in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1998, and re-elected in Grenada in 2003, and in Cali, Colombia, in 2008.