Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1864

On 1 July 1864, IntMap’s historical map draws 30 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Mexican Empire2,030,000
United States1,260,000
Confederate States1,110,000
United States of Venezuela599,000
Colombia305,000
New Spain (1861-1865)258,000
Captaincy General of Cuba152,000
Honduras120,000
Nicaragua106,000
Guatemala95,200
Costa Rica60,100
Colony of the Bahamas47,200
Republic of Haiti35,700
British Honduras Colony31,700
Mosquito Reserve30,200
El Salvador22,900
Chan Santa Cruz20,900
Colony of Jamaica14,700
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico12,800
Colony of Trinidad7,680
British Windward Islands6,910
British Guiana6,300
Colony of Guadelupe4,380
Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands4,220
Kingdom of the Netherlands3,580
Danish West Indies1,890
Colony of Dominica1,570
Cayman Islands1,520
Second French Empire1,200
Colony of Bermuda555

What changed since 1863

Now drawn

Mexican Empire, United States of Venezuela

No longer drawn

Mexico, State of Venezuela

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1864 Map of Europe · 1864 Map of the Middle East · 1862–1865 Map of Africa · 1864–1865 Map of South Asia · 1859–1866 Map of East Asia · 1859–1866 Map of Southeast Asia · 1864–1866 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of North America · 1864 Map of South America · 1864–1879 Map of Oceania · 1864

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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