Map of South America in 1600

For 1600, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 10 names within South America. The map also draws 5 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)
Spanish Empire8,720,000
Amazon hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)3,200,000
Savanna hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)2,020,000
Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name)1,450,000
Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name)259,000
Jesuit Reducciones216,000
Andean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)123,000
Caribbean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)33,400
Shuar4,360
Vice Royalty of New Spain713

What changed since 1530

Now drawn

Jesuit Reducciones

No longer drawn

Inca Empire, Portuguese Empire

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1600 Map of Europe · 1600 Map of the Middle East · 1600 Map of Africa · 1600 Map of South Asia · 1600 Map of East Asia · 1600 Map of Southeast Asia · 1600 Map of Central Asia · 1600 Map of North America · 1600 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1600 Map of Oceania · 1600

Source and method

Borders and names: 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 82°W–34°W, 56°S–13°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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