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The Americas have an elevated number of leishmaniasis cases (accounting for two-thirds of the worldwide disease burden) and circulating Leishmania species, and are therefore of interest in terms of epidemiological surveillance. Here, we present a systematic review of Leishmania parasite species circulating in the countries of the American continent, together with complementary information on epidemiology and geospatial distribution. A database was built from data published between 1980 and 2018 on Leishmania species identified in most of the American countries. A total of 1499 georeferenced points were extracted from published articles and subsequently located to 14 countries in the Americas. This database could be used as a reference when surveilling the occurrence of Leishmania species in the continent. Measurement(s) Distribution Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) reference • political division • type of sample • species • method of identification • geographic coordinates Sample Characteristic - Organism Leishmania Sample Characteristic - Location North America • South America Measurement(s) Distribution Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) reference • political division • type of sample • species • method of identification • geographic coordinates Sample Characteristic - Organism Leishmania Sample Characteristic - Location North America • South America Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11993970