Bogotá through 170 million years

Bogotá lay at 1° south, the latitude of Nairobi today.

Bogotá crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The great extinction

Bogotá lay on the equator.

Bogotá crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Homo sapiens

Bogotá lay at 5° north, its latitude today.

Bogotá today.

5° north. In 170 million years the plates have carried it some 5,800 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 1° south; 170 million years ago
Farthest south: 3° south; 30 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 160 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 90 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 70 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 70 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 10 million years ago
Distance travelled: 5,800 kilometres; 170 million 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.