Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Caracas
Antipode finder · Venezuela
The antipode of
Caracas.
Draw a straight line from Caracas (10.49° N, 66.88° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 10.49° S, 113.12° E, in the Indian Ocean, 221 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Indonesia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Caracas
- 10.49° N, 66.88° W · about 1,080 m above sea level · 3,000,000 people
- Antipode
- 10.49° S, 113.12° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 2,920 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 221 km from the antipode, on the coast of Indonesia
- Nearest town
- Puger, Indonesia · 239 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Surabaya · 362 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 221 km away, 74 km from Las Mercedes, Venezuela ⇄ near Puger, Indonesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Caracas?
No, not from Caracas itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 221 km from the nearest dry land (Indonesia), where the sea floor lies about 2,920 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 221 km from Caracas, 74 km from Las Mercedes, Venezuela. Its other slice would go down 24 km from Puger, Indonesia.
Caracas 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.