Buenos Aires through 1 billion years

Buenos Aires lay at 10° south, the latitude of Luanda today.

The Cambrian explosion

Buenos Aires lay at 40° south.

Life reaches land

Buenos Aires lay at 25° south, the latitude of Gaborone today.

Farthest south.

Buenos Aires lay at 81° south.

The first dinosaurs

Buenos Aires lay at 48° south.

The great extinction

Buenos Aires lay at 40° south.

Homo sapiens

Buenos Aires lay at 35° south, its latitude today.

Buenos Aires today.

35° south. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 52,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 10° south; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 81° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest north: 0° south; 940 million years ago
Distance travelled: 52,000 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.