Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / León de los Aldama
Antipode finder · Mexico
The antipode of
León de los Aldama.
Draw a straight line from León de los Aldama (21.12° N, 101.68° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 21.12° S, 78.32° E, in the Indian Ocean, 1,552 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Mauritius. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- León de los Aldama
- 21.12° N, 101.68° W · about 1,880 m above sea level · 1,579,803 people
- Antipode
- 21.12° S, 78.32° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,680 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,552 km from the antipode, on the coast of Mauritius
- Nearest town
- Port Mathurin, Mauritius · 1,561 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Antananarivo · 3,220 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,856 km away, 35 km from Lamar, United States ⇄ 1,412 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories
Can you make an Earth sandwich from León de los Aldama?
No, not from León de los Aldama itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 1,552 km from the nearest dry land (Mauritius), where the sea floor lies about 4,680 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,856 km from León de los Aldama, 35 km from Lamar, United States. Its other slice would go down 1,412 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories.
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.