Held every 4 years in Central America and the Caribbean

They are organized by Centro Caribe Sports (formerly ODECABE), featuring sports such as athletics, swimming, water polo, basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball, handball, cycling, equestrian, triathlon, Basque pelota, among others.

The fourth edition took place in Panama in 1938, and the fifth, which was scheduled for 1942, was postponed due to the Second World War, in solidarity with the principles of Olympism and with the International Olympic Committee. The fifth edition would be celebrated in 1946, in Barranquilla, a coastal city in the Colombian Caribbean.

Until 2011, the Olympic Committee of the Netherlands Antilles was part of the organization; the committee ceased to exist with the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. Guadeloupe, Martinique, Curacao, French Guiana, Sint Maarten, and Turks and Caicos have been accepted as new participants.

The Central American and Caribbean Games are a multi-sport event held every 4 years since 1926 in different cities of countries within the region encompassing Central America and the Caribbean basin. It is the oldest regional multi-disciplinary event in the world. The Central American and Caribbean Games are organized by the organization Centro Caribe Sports.