Lima through 450 million years

Lima lay at 27° south, the latitude of Lobamba today.

Farthest south.

Lima lay at 59° south.

The first dinosaurs

Lima lay at 24° south, the latitude of Gaborone today.

The great extinction

Lima lay at 15° south, the latitude of Lilongwe today.

Homo sapiens

Lima lay at 12° south, its latitude today.

Lima today.

12° south. In 450 million years the plates have carried it some 25,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 27° south; 450 million years ago
Farthest south: 59° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest north: 11° south; 120 million years ago
Distance travelled: 25,000 kilometres; 450 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.