Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Barquisimeto
Antipode finder · Venezuela
The antipode of
Barquisimeto.
Draw a straight line from Barquisimeto (10.06° N, 69.36° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 10.06° S, 110.64° E, in the Indian Ocean, 205 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Indonesia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Barquisimeto
- 10.06° N, 69.36° W · about 600 m above sea level · 1,240,714 people
- Antipode
- 10.06° S, 110.64° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,960 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 205 km from the antipode, on the coast of Indonesia
- Nearest town
- Pacitan, Indonesia · 214 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Semarang · 342 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 205 km away, near El Regalo, Venezuela ⇄ near Pacitan, Indonesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Barquisimeto?
No, not from Barquisimeto itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 205 km from the nearest dry land (Indonesia), where the sea floor lies about 3,960 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 205 km from Barquisimeto, 28 km from El Regalo, Venezuela. Its other slice would go down 13 km from Pacitan, Indonesia.
Barquisimeto is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
How this was worked out: the antipode flips the latitude and moves the longitude by 180°. Land or sea comes from the OpenStreetMap coastline the map uses; the sandwich verdict and elevations come from the verifier's 0.2° grid (Natural Earth land, ETOPO 2022 relief); water names from Natural Earth; towns and populations from GeoNames. The city's position is GeoNames' point for it; a big city's suburbs spread tens of kilometres around that point, and the figures move with them. Generated 2026-09-29.