South America in 1640
This map shows the 5 states and peoples the data has for South America in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in South America in 1640
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Jesuit Reducciones
- New Netherland
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
New on the map since 1615
Portuguese Empire · New Netherland · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Gone from the map by 1665
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Animated maps of this time
South America in other years
Other regions in 1640
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.