The 1989 South American Basketball Championship for women , the twenty -first South American Basketball Championship for women , took place between April 18 and 25, 1989 in Santiago de Chile , Chile , which hosted the championship for the fourth time. The winner was the Brazilian team , which was unbeaten for the twelfth time, for the second time in a row, at the South American Women's Championship.
The game was played in the form of a round-robin tournament with six teams. Each team played against each other exactly once, so that each team played five games (a total of 15 games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The team with the highest points was the women's basketball South American championship in 1989. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided . Since Peru, Argentina and Chile were tied and Peru won against Chile, Chile against Argentina and Argentina against Peru, the relative basket ratio of those three games decided in this case. Since Peru (+1) had a better basket ratio than Argentina (0) and Chile (−1), the table below resulted in the constellation.