Tegucigalpa through 140 million years

Tegucigalpa lay at 10° north, the latitude of Cần Thơ today.

The great extinction

Tegucigalpa lay at 17° north, the latitude of Belmopan today.

Homo sapiens

Tegucigalpa lay at 14° north, its latitude today.

Tegucigalpa today.

14° north. In 140 million years the plates have carried it some 6,400 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 10° north; 140 million years ago
Farthest south: 10° north; 140 million years ago
Farthest north: 18° north; 70 million years ago
Distance travelled: 6,400 kilometres; 140 million years

other places

San Salvador
Managua
Guatemala City
Belmopan
Veracruz
Kingston
Mexico City
Nassau
Port-au-Prince
Bogotá

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.