South America in 1683
1683 is the year of the second siege of Vienna. This map shows the 5 states and peoples the data has for South America in that year.
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States and peoples in South America in 1683
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Jesuit Reducciones
- New Netherland
- New France
Animated maps of this time
South America in other years
Other regions in 1683
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.