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Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0
Landmark Americas wonder

Aconcagua

3000 BCE – still standing

Highest peak in the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere at 6,961 metres

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Andean hunter-gatherers (1500 BCE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Huarpe (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Inca Empire (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1600 CE)
  7. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. United Provinces of La Plata (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Argentina (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Caral 1700 BCE Poverty Point 1200 BCE Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1100 BCE Pulemelei Mound 900 BCE Chavín de Huántar 600 BCE Tikal

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Aconcagua Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Chichen Itza Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Machu Picchu Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain