Map of South America in 1772
On 1 July 1772, IntMap’s historical map draws 20 names within South America. 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) |
|---|---|
| Viceroyalty of Peru | 7,600,000 |
| State of Brazil | 4,250,000 |
| State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão | 3,510,000 |
| Viceroyalty of New Granada | 3,060,000 |
| State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro | 2,920,000 |
| Governorate of Chile | 1,300,000 |
| Province of Caracas | 1,040,000 |
| State of Maranhão and Piauí | 339,000 |
| Suriname | 148,000 |
| Colony of French Guiana | 86,600 |
| Kolonie Berbice | 46,500 |
| Governorate of Chiloe | 44,000 |
| Kolonie Demerara | 16,200 |
| Kolonie Essequebo | 10,500 |
| Colonia Trinidad | 7,680 |
| Colony of Grenada | 1,480 |
| Colony of St Vincent and the Grenadines | 1,020 |
| Colony of Tobago | 1,020 |
| Sacramento Colony | 85.7 |
| Colony of Barbados | <1 |
What changed since 1768–1771
Now drawn
State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro, State of Maranhão and Piauí
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1772 Map of Europe · 1772 Map of the Middle East · 1762–1784 Map of Africa · 1769–1775 Map of South Asia · 1771–1774 Map of East Asia · 1772 Map of Southeast Asia · 1772 Map of Central Asia · 1762–1784 Map of North America · 1769–1772 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1767–1775 Map of Oceania · 1767–1780
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 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.