Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1816
On 1 July 1816, IntMap’s historical map draws 37 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 (1813-1819) | 3,530,000 |
| Inner Provinces | 1,520,000 |
| Viceroyalty of New Granada | 904,000 |
| Captaincy General of Venezuela | 599,000 |
| Captaincy General of Guatemala | 439,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 322,000 |
| United States of America | 277,000 |
| New Galicia | 230,000 |
| Intendency of Yucatán | 198,000 |
| Spanish Empire | 172,000 |
| Comancheria | 122,000 |
| United States | 81,000 |
| Captaincy General of Santo Domingo | 60,200 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 51,400 |
| Kingdom of Haiti | 42,400 |
| Louisiana Neutral Ground | 20,600 |
| Republic of Haiti | 16,500 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 14,100 |
| British Settlements on the Bay of Honduras | 10,900 |
| Vice-Royalty of New Spain | 8,190 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Guiana | 5,330 |
| Saint Christopher–Nevis–Anguilla–Virgin Islands | 3,390 |
| Netherlands Antilles | 2,330 |
| Colony of St Vincent and the Grenadines | 2,030 |
| Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat Colony | 1,940 |
| 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 |
| Martinique | 1,200 |
| Colony of Barbados | 1,020 |
| Colony of Tobago | 1,020 |
| Colony of Demerara-Essequibo | 974 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
What changed since 1815
Now drawn
Saint Christopher–Nevis–Anguilla–Virgin Islands, Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat Colony
No longer drawn
Colony of Guadelupe
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1816 Map of Europe · 1816 Map of the Middle East · 1814–1819 Map of Africa · 1816 Map of South Asia · 1816–1817 Map of East Asia · 1816–1817 Map of Southeast Asia · 1816–1818 Map of Central Asia · 1814–1819 Map of North America · 1814–1818 Map of South America · 1816 Map of Oceania · 1815–1818
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.