While the Games will be inaugurated tomorrow, competition is already underway with table tennis and beach volleyball beginning yesterday.

Preliminary rounds of boxing will start today.

Scheduled to close on July 8, San Salvador will host 31 of the 37 sports of the regional Games while the Dominican Republic will stage the other six - field hockey, canoeing, equestrian, modern pentathlon, shooting and taekwondo.

Athletes competing will be eyeing to qualify for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.

San Salvador 2023 Organising Committee President Yamil Bukele and El Salvador Olympic Committee (COES) chief Armando Bruni presented the national pavilion to athletes from the host nation today.

Skater Ivonne Nóchez and beach soccer goalkeeper Eliodoro Portillo collected the flag.

Cuba is the most successful nation in the history of the event having amassed 3,562 medals - 1,854  gold, 961 silver and 747 bronze medals.

Mexico is the next best country with 1,367 gold, 1,333 silver and 1,178 bronze medals while Venezuela complete the top-three with 598 gold, 820 silver and 991 bronze medals.

Barranquilla in Colombia hosted the last edition of the event in 2018 where Mexico pipped Cuba to finish on top.

Cuba will hope for a similar finish or better in San Salvador.

San Salvador has hosted the event twice before in 1935 and 2002.

This year's Games was supposed to take place in Panama until the country's Government withdrew as hosts in July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.