Praia through 120 million years

Praia lay at 19° north, the latitude of Port-au-Prince today.

The great extinction

Praia lay at 8° north, the latitude of Freetown today.

Homo sapiens

Praia lay at 15° north, its latitude today.

Praia today.

15° north. In 120 million years the plates have carried it some 2,700 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 19° north; 120 million years ago
Farthest south: 6° north; 40 million years ago
Farthest north: 19° north; 120 million years ago
Distance travelled: 2,700 kilometres; 120 million years

other places

Dakar
Banjul
Nouakchott
Bissau
Conakry
Freetown
Monrovia
Bamako
Yamoussoukro
Abidjan

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.