Map of South America, 1818–1819

On 1 July of every year from 1818 to 1819, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 22 names within South America. The borders 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)
Kingdom of Brazil5,150,000
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata3,810,000
Viceroyalty of New Granada3,060,000
State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro2,920,000
Viceroyalty of Peru (1817-1820)2,120,000
Venezuela1,100,000
Paraguay690,000
Federal League287,000
Chile258,000
Suriname148,000
Colony of French Guiana86,600
Colony of Berbice46,500
Colony of Demerara-Essequibo26,600
Governorate of Chiloe15,100
Colony of Trinidad7,680
British Colonial Empire5,690
British Empire5,460
Netherlands Antilles1,990
Colony of Grenada1,480
Colony of St Vincent and the Grenadines1,020
Colony of Tobago1,020
Colony of Barbados<1

Open the map on 1 July of

1818 1819

What changed since 1817

Now drawn

Venezuela

No longer drawn

Captaincy General of Venezuela

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1818 Map of Europe · 1817–1819 Map of the Middle East · 1814–1819 Map of Africa · 1818–1819 Map of South Asia · 1818 Map of East Asia · 1818 Map of Southeast Asia · 1816–1818 Map of Central Asia · 1814–1819 Map of North America · 1814–1818 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1818 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 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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