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 The Copa América is a football competition between South American national teams. Since 1993, Mexico has also been among the participants and other national teams have occasionally been invited as well. In the beginning, the tournament was held every year, which was later changed to every other year (currently its held once every four years). The Copa América was originally named the South American Football Championship (Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol in Spanish). In 1975, the tournament was renamed Copa América. 

 From a historical perspective, there is an obvious lack of in continuity of the competition marked by several irregularities and a few larger gaps between tournaments. Between 1929 and 1935 due to the antagonism between the leading football nation on the continent Argentina and Uruguay that arose after the World Cup final in 1930, no competitions were played. Between 1967 and 1975, partly due the emergency of the Copa Libertadores that was founded in 1960, there was another hiatus. 

 After the eight-year break, the tournament was renamed from Campeonato Sudamericano to Copa América and a home-and-away format was introduced. 

 From 1975 to 1987 the tournament included nine teams in a three-groups structure. In 1991 all ten Conmebol members were included in a two-group structure. In 1993, the tournament was expanding to twelve teams and since then other nations has been invited to fill up the 12-team structure. Mexico has participated regularly since 1993, and besides Mexico, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Qatar, United States has been participated in Copa América. Among the non-original nations, none have so far won the tournament; Mexico have been closest with two second places. 

 In 2016, the competition was for the first time held outside South America with USA as hosts. This coincided with the 100th year anniversary of the Copa América. 

Source Information: https://www.footballhistory.org/tournament/copa-america.html

 Over the years, the Copa América trophy has been modified with the addition of wooden components to accommodate the trophy's winners' badges. The original CONMEBOL Copa América trophy was made by Casa Escasany to be awarded at the 1917 South American Championship, later renamed the Copa América. 

 The trophy cost 3,000 Swiss francs and was awarded at the inaugural tournament.   

 It was made of gold, silver, copper and wood, measuring about  30 centimeters in diameter and 75 centimeters high and weighing 9 kilos. 

In 1979, a wooden base was added so that a second row of champions' badges could be added, while in 1995, a third step was added. Since 2004, different replicas of the trophy have been awarded.  It currently weighs 11.88 kilos. 

Source Information:  https://copaamerica.com/en/news/after-100-years-of-history-the-conmebol-copa-america-trophy-has-been-restored

Source Information:  https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/copa-america-trophy-size-weight-worth-and-what-made/739cf64324f34647d5e19ca7