Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1787
On 1 July 1787, IntMap’s historical map draws 33 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The borders for this date 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.
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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| New Spain (1786-1795) | 3,750,000 |
| Inner Provinces | 1,770,000 |
| Viceroyalty of New Granada | 903,000 |
| Captaincy General of Venezuela | 599,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 579,000 |
| Captaincy General of Guatemala | 439,000 |
| United States | 237,000 |
| New Galicia | 230,000 |
| Intendency of Yucatán | 198,000 |
| Comancheria | 122,000 |
| Spanish Empire | 112,000 |
| Captaincy General of Santo Domingo | 60,200 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 51,400 |
| Saint-Domingue | 31,800 |
| British Colonial Empire | 29,700 |
| British Empire | 29,700 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 14,100 |
| British Settlements on the Bay of Honduras | 10,900 |
| Colonia Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Guiana | 5,330 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,130 |
| Colony of St Vincent and the Grenadines | 2,030 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Colony of Dominica | 1,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Colony of Grenada | 1,480 |
| Colony of Saint Lucia | 1,360 |
| Colony of Barbados | 1,020 |
| Colonie de Tobago | 1,020 |
| Kolonie Essequebo | 974 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 417 |
What changed since 1786
Now drawn
Intendency of Yucatán, Spanish Empire, British Colonial Empire, British Empire
No longer drawn
Captaincy General of Yucatán, Mosquito Kingdom
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1787 Map of Europe · 1783–1788 Map of the Middle East · 1785–1788 Map of Africa · 1780–1787 Map of South Asia · 1785–1787 Map of East Asia · 1787 Map of Southeast Asia · 1787 Map of Central Asia · 1785–1788 Map of North America · 1786–1787 Map of South America · 1784–1788 Map of Oceania · 1786–1787
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.