Sucre through 520 million years

Sucre lay at 46° south.

Life reaches land

Sucre lay at 31° south.

Farthest south.

Sucre lay at 72° south.

The first dinosaurs

Sucre lay at 32° south, the latitude of Santiago today.

The great extinction

Sucre lay at 23° south, the latitude of São Paulo today.

Homo sapiens

Sucre lay at 19° south, its latitude today.

Sucre today.

19° south. In 520 million years the plates have carried it some 29,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 46° south; 520 million years ago
Farthest south: 72° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest north: 18° south; 120 million years ago
Distance travelled: 29,000 kilometres; 520 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.