The 1974 South American Basketball Championship for women , the fifteenth South American Basketball Championship for women , took place between October 16 and 27, 1974 in La Paz , Bolivia , which hosted the championship for the first time. The winner was the Brazilian team , which won the South American Women's Championship for the eighth time, for the sixth time in a row.
The game was played in the form of a round-robin tournament with seven teams. Each team played against each other exactly once, so that each team played six games (a total of 21 games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The team with the highest points was the South American women's basketball champions in 1974. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided .