Map of South America, 1853–1857
On 1 July of every year from 1853 to 1857, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 21 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Empire of Brazil | 7,890,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,970,000 |
| Argentine Confederation | 1,840,000 |
| New Granada | 1,300,000 |
| State of Venezuela | 1,100,000 |
| Peru | 1,090,000 |
| Paraguay | 690,000 |
| Ecuador | 659,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | 586,000 |
| State of Buenos Aires | 318,000 |
| Chile | 283,000 |
| Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | 227,000 |
| Uruguay | 182,000 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | 151,000 |
| Colony of French Guiana | 86,600 |
| British Guiana | 73,100 |
| Mapuche | 9,010 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Colonial Empire | 5,690 |
| British Empire | 5,460 |
| British Windward Islands | 3,530 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1849–1852
Now drawn
State of Buenos Aires
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1853 Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of the Middle East · 1848–1854 Map of Africa · 1853 Map of South Asia · 1853–1855 Map of East Asia · 1850–1854 Map of Southeast Asia · 1853 Map of Central Asia · 1849–1855 Map of North America · 1853 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1853 Map of Oceania · 1852–1855
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.