Interest is up from the successful event last year as part of the World Series inaugural season.

Action is due to get underway with preliminary multi-class racing for men and women across 200 and 400 metres freestyle and 50m and 100m breaststroke.

The event is due to conclude on Saturday (April 21).

Mexico's five-time world bronze medallist Luis Andrade will start his season when he competes in Indianapolis.

It will be the World Series debut for the 23-year-old, who is scheduled to swim the men’s 50m backstroke S8, 50m breaststroke SB8, 50m and 100m butterfly S8, and 50m and 100m freestyle S8.

"I am feeling really well and very excited about competing at a World Series event for the first time in my career," the Mexican said. 

"I know I will do really well.

"My goals are to lower my times in each of the events, especially in the freestyle races where I feel more confident."

Andrade, who had his left arm amputated after he was involved in a car accident at six years old, last competed at his home World Championships  in Mexico City, where he won four bronze medals.

That marked a major improvement on his one bronze from Glasgow in 2014.

Andrade has become one of the most famous faces in Mexican Paralympic sport after being chosen to light the cauldron at the Parapan American Games in Guadalajara in 2011. 

He has been named Sportsman of the Year three times in his home state of Baja California.

In 2016, he also received the ‘Sports Merit Award’ in his country due to his performance at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished fifth in the 100m butterfly S8 and eighth in the 100m freestyle S8.

After competing at the World Series, he will start preparing for his big goals ahead of the next two years: the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima and Tokyo 2020.

The World Para Swimming World Series has returned in 2018 after a successful debut season in 2017.

Brazil’s Daniel Dias and Italy’s Monica Boggioni won the individual men’s and women’s titles at the 2017 World Series.

The next stops in the series are scheduled to be São Paolo, from April 26 to 28, Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy from May 24 to 27, Sheffield from May 31 to June 3, and Berlin, from June 7 to 9.