This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around South America.
|- |Elihu B. Washburne | |1943 |Sunk in Santos Bay. | |- | | |20 January 1887 |An emigrant ship that was travelling from London to Australia when it collided with the barque , with 299 lives lost. | |- | | | 11 February 1895 | |- | | |1718 |Pirate ship under the command of Olivier Levasseur (La Buse) that sank at Cotinga Island, Paranaguá after hitting a rock during a storm. | |- | | |26 April 1949 |A refrigerator ship that ran aground and then split in two in the Guanabara Bay while under tow. | |- | | |6 January 1981 |Capsized in the Amazon River, at Cajari, Macapá. | |- | | |1967 |A grain cargo ship that sunk after a fire aboard. A popular dive site at Ilha Grande. | |- | | |5 March 1916 |An ocean liner that ran aground on a shoal near Ilhabela, São Paulo, resulting in at least 445 deaths. | |- | | |1853 |An emigrant ship that ran aground off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte. | |- | | |19 September 1981 |Capsized in the Amazon River, at ÃÂbidos, Pará. Around 250 to 300 people were killed, 178 people survived. | |- | | |2 August 1861 |An extreme clipper that caught fire and sank near Pernambuco. | |- |Tocantins | |1933 |Sunk at the Queimada Grande Island, due to heavy fog. | |- | | |16 May 1943 |Attacked by US Navy aircraft and destroyers off the coast of Recife. After considerable shelling and aerial bombing that rendered her dead in the water, the crew scuttled her the next day. |