Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1858
On 1 July 1858, IntMap’s historical map draws 32 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) |
|---|---|
| Mexico | 2,060,000 |
| United States | 1,260,000 |
| State of Venezuela | 599,000 |
| Granadine Confederation | 305,000 |
| New Spain (1854-1861) | 166,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Comancheria | 122,000 |
| Guatemala | 111,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Honduras | 98,900 |
| Miskito Kingdom | 86,900 |
| Costa Rica | 60,100 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 47,200 |
| Empire of Haiti | 35,700 |
| El Salvador | 22,900 |
| Chan Santa Cruz | 20,900 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 12,800 |
| Settlement of British Honduras | 10,900 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| British Guiana | 6,300 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,380 |
| Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands | 4,220 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | 3,580 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Colony of the Bay Islands | 1,690 |
| Colony of Dominica | 1,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Second French Empire | 1,200 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
What changed since 1854–1857
Now drawn
Granadine Confederation
No longer drawn
New Granada
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1858 Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of the Middle East · 1857–1858 Map of Africa · 1857–1858 Map of South Asia · 1857–1858 Map of East Asia · 1856–1858 Map of Southeast Asia · 1854–1858 Map of Central Asia · 1856–1858 Map of North America · 1854–1858 Map of South America · 1858–1860 Map of Oceania · 1857–1858
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.