The project for the integration of Latin America is as old as the independences themselves.It was first formulated during the course of political movements and military conflicts that would eventually lead to the fall of the Iberian colonial empires in America and it extends itself, in several formulations, to the contemporary.This research's focus is on the integrationism devised in the years 1810 and 1820, in which Simón Bolívar is the main expression.The Amphictyonic Congress of Panama was held in 1826 through Bolívar's direct action, bringing together Spanish American republics in order to constitute an organized body that would unify the various governments arising from the fight against Spain into a single institutional instance.Bolivar's work as well as the 1826 treaties, the primary sources for this research, are analyzed and problematized.In addition, the developments of these ideas in new integrationist elaborations throughout Latin American's history are also analyzed from the perspective of the impact suffered by that first elaboration.This research defends that Simon Bolivar remains a symbol of Latin American unity and his ideas remain reference to the integrationist debate because the issues raised in the context of post-independence, to a greater or less extent, remain current even today.