Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1600

For 1600, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 55 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The map also draws 26 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Spanish Empire4,950,000
Apache343,000
Mescalero146,000
Caohuiltecs111,000
Comanche89,900
Vice Royalty of New Spain88,800
Choctaw78,300
Tonkawa76,000
Caddo75,400
Cochimí70,800
Caloosahatchee culture69,000
Chiricahua60,400
Lipan58,900
Cahitas57,700
Guachimis57,600
Hitchiti57,100
Tamalipueca51,800
Papago48,600
Atakapa47,500
Muskogee46,300
Timucua41,600
Wichita40,900
Pima35,600
Tepehuane35,400
Itza Mayans33,000
Chisos28,100
Natchez25,100
Naniaho24,600
Chatot23,100
Karankawa22,000
Acaxea20,400
Toboso17,800
Alabama16,800
Chtimacha16,400
Tunica14,400
Yuma13,700
Zacatecs10,300
Kamia9,510
Cusabo6,450
Apalachee6,200
Houma5,720
Janabres4,010
Tancalba3,750
Lagunero2,880
Biloxi2,570
Nayarit2,260
Cuba (Spain)886
Pisones678
Knucati677
Hispaniola (Spain)339
Quapaw332
Chicaksaw233
Mayas149
Yavapai134
Maratines109

What changed since 1530

Now drawn

Cochimí, Itza Mayans

No longer drawn

Later Mayan City-States, Caribbean hunter-gatherers, Guachichiles, Michoacán, Cochimà, Guamar / Pecchichitane, Xecora, Tecuexe, Irritilas, Caxcane, Otomies

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1600 Map of Europe · 1600 Map of the Middle East · 1600 Map of Africa · 1600 Map of South Asia · 1600 Map of East Asia · 1600 Map of Southeast Asia · 1600 Map of Central Asia · 1600 Map of North America · 1600 Map of South America · 1600 Map of Oceania · 1600

Source and method

Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 118°W–59°W, 7°N–33°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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