Asunción through 1 billion years

Asunción lay at 19° south, the latitude of Sucre today.

The Cambrian explosion

Asunción lay at 55° south.

Life reaches land

Asunción lay at 32° south, the latitude of Santiago today.

Farthest south.

Asunción lay at 81° south.

The first dinosaurs

Asunción lay at 38° south, the latitude of Melbourne today.

The great extinction

Asunción lay at 30° south, the latitude of Maseru today.

Homo sapiens

Asunción lay at 25° south, its latitude today.

Asunción today.

25° south. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 50,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 19° south; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 81° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest north: 10° south; 940 million years ago
Distance travelled: 50,000 kilometres; 1 billion years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.