Map of South America, 1976–1986

On 1 July of every year from 1976 to 1986, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 19 names within South America. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — 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)
Brazil8,510,000
Argentina2,780,000
Peru1,300,000
Colombia1,140,000
Bolivia1,090,000
Venezuela929,000
Chile749,000
Paraguay400,000
Ecuador249,000
Guyana212,000
Uruguay178,000
Suriname146,000
French Guiana (France)84,200
Panama63,900
British Colonial Empire20,400
British Empire19,700
Federated Republic of Brazil10,700
Trinidad and Tobago5,240
Grenada529

Open the map on 1 July of

1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

What changed since 1967–1975

Now drawn

Suriname, Grenada

No longer drawn

Dutch Guiana (Netherlands)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1976 Map of Europe · 1976–1978 Map of the Middle East · 1972–1976 Map of Africa · 1976 Map of South Asia · 1972–1976 Map of East Asia · 1972–1976 Map of Southeast Asia · 1976 Map of Central Asia · 1972–1978 Map of North America · 1974–1991 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1976–1978 Map of Oceania · 1976

Source and method

Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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.

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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