Guatemala City through 140 million years

Guatemala City lay at 12° north, the latitude of Bissau today.

The great extinction

Guatemala City lay at 19° north, the latitude of Mumbai today.

Homo sapiens

Guatemala City lay at 15° north, its latitude today.

Guatemala City today.

15° north. In 140 million years the plates have carried it some 6,500 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 12° north; 140 million years ago
Farthest south: 12° north; 140 million years ago
Farthest north: 19° north; 70 million years ago
Distance travelled: 6,500 kilometres; 140 million years

other places

San Salvador
Belmopan
Tegucigalpa
Managua
Veracruz
Mexico City
Kingston
Nassau
Port-au-Prince
Quito

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.