The River Systems of America (1856)
‘Fun fact. Technically a fish could swim through the USA from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. A creek in Wyoming splits in two and eventually reaches both the Mississippi and the Columbia Rivers’–desperadow
South America in globular perspective (1937)
‘TIL Brazil is bigger than the lower 48’–Appreciation622
1942 Japanese map of South America
‘At least they got the burning Amazon forest part right. It used to be burning this year’–hheenergy
1595 map of South America
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‘You gotta turn it sideways to orient North to the top of the image.
It’s a beautiful map!‘–andresg6
Forest Cover of the Americas
‘The Andes create a rain shadow over Argentina, leaving Patagonia as essentially a cold desert’–ilovesfootball
Watersheds of South America
‘It’s beautiful how you can see the border between Chile and Argentina’–MundaneYoghurt
1595 map of South America
‘You gotta turn it sideways to orient North to the top of the image.
It’s a beautiful map!‘–andresg6
1932 Japanese Pictorial Map of South America
“Therefore, Uruguay is brazilian clay”–H_UE
1812 map of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata - by John Pinkerton
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Topographic map of the Andes Mountain Range in Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina
1587 map of the Americas, Pacific - by Abraham Ortelius
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“Very nice map.
“The passage at the bottom of South America is in fact the Strait of Magellan, (Latin: fretum magellanicum). South of it is Terra del Fuego (Spanish: Land of Fire). Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616 proving that Terra del Fuego was not the northern part of what would later be named Antarctica”–doitstuart
Indigenous people of the Southern Cone of South America
“There’s one Yagan lady left”–HiImStan
Amazon Basin Map
“It really is amazing how close the Amazonian watershed comes to the Pacific coast. Beautiful map!”–Faelchu
Map showing the South America- Africa Tectonic Rift
“This litterally is map porn”–WolfKids28
1661 map of Dutch Guiana - by William Blaeuw
“Interesting point on that map is that it shows Eldorado on the west coast of Lac Parime (which itself may or may not have actually existed in real life)”–lordsteve1
Exaggerated relief map of western South America at sunrise
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1733 map of southern South America - by Johann Baptist Homann
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Chili, Paraguay. Freti Magellanici.
The Inca Empire in 1527 A.D. at its Territorial Height
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“Fantastic. Fascinating that they had only one major port city.”–Ut_Prosim
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