Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1697–1703

On 1 July of every year from 1697 to 1703, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 34 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 4 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)
New Spain (1697-1704)4,040,000
Province of Caracas591,000
Captaincy General of Guatemala443,000
Captaincy General of Cuba411,000
Viceroyalty of Peru304,000
New Kingdom of Granada304,000
New France266,000
New Galicia230,000
Captaincy General of Yucatán206,000
Vice-Royalty of New Spain167,000
Spanish Empire120,000
New Kingdom of León63,500
Captaincy General of Santo Domingo60,200
Province of Carolina47,400
Bahamas47,200
Saint-Domingue31,800
Colony of Jamaica14,700
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico14,100
Manche Chʼol12,700
Colonia Trinidad7,680
British Guiana5,330
Colony of Guadelupe4,440
St Vincent and the Grenadines Territory2,030
Spanish Bay Islands1,690
Dominica1,570
Cayman Islands1,520
Colony of Grenada1,480
Colony of Saint Lucia1,360
Colony of Barbados1,020
Kolonie Essequebo974
French Saint Croix858
Danish West Indies791
Colony of Bermuda555
Yavapai134

Open the map on 1 July of

1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703

What changed since 1693–1696

Now drawn

New Spain (1697-1704), Saint-Domingue

No longer drawn

New Spain (1667-1697), Saint-Domingue Français, Itza Kingdom

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1697 Map of Europe · 1696–1698 Map of the Middle East · 1696–1705 Map of Africa · 1690–1699 Map of South Asia · 1696–1697 Map of East Asia · 1697–1698 Map of Southeast Asia · 1697–1698 Map of Central Asia · 1689–1705 Map of North America · 1697–1699 Map of South America · 1697–1703 Map of Oceania · 1697–1703

Source and method

Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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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