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Puzzle#229

Geoguessr

Released: 2026-06-21

Google Street View Image
Country Flag

Argentina

Lat: -46.93434761236992

Lng: -69.71767765638809

See on Google Street View


6
Models Tested
6890.5km
Avg. Distance
2326.3
Avg. Score
5
LLM Providers

Key:

Attempt
Solution

Score Threshold:

>4400
>2000
<2000

google/gemini-3-flash-preview

google

Score: 4521

Distance: 201km

Lat: -47.904832

Lng: -67.457805


This landscape is characteristic of the Patagonian Steppe in southern Argentina. The specific combination of a gravel road, low-lying arid shrubs, and wide flat plains suggests Santa Cruz Province. This particular stretch on Provincial Route 12 features the guardrails and vast desolate views consistent with the descent into the plateaus near Pico Truncado.


anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

anthropic

Score: 0

Distance: 19183km

Lat: 41.5

Lng: 103.1


This image shows a high-altitude desert landscape with sparse vegetation and a dark pipeline running across arid terrain. The characteristics visible include: extremely dry, barren landscape with minimal vegetation cover typical of Central Asian high plateaus, a major pipeline infrastructure suggesting an oil or gas corridor, the terrain elevation and coloring consistent with the Tibetan Plateau or similar Central Asian highlands, and the overall geography pointing to regions in western China or Tibet. The pipeline appears to be a major infrastructure project, likely part of China’s extensive pipeline network. The landscape, climate indicators, and infrastructure suggest this is located in the high-altitude regions of western China, possibly along the route of oil/gas pipelines crossing the Tibetan Plateau or Xinjiang region.


meta-llama/llama-4-maverick

meta

Score: 22

Distance: 10871km

Lat: 40.778206

Lng: -118.302121


The image shows a dirt road and a guardrail in a desert landscape. The landscape appears to be characteristic of the Great Basin Desert in the United States. Upon closer inspection, the terrain and vegetation suggest a location in Nevada. The specific combination of the dirt road and guardrail, along with the vast desert landscape, is reminiscent of areas along highways in Nevada. A likely location is near a highway in northern Nevada, such as along Interstate 80. By comparing the image to known locations along I-80 in Nevada, the coordinates 40.778206, -118.302121 appear to be a plausible match due to the similar terrain and road features.


anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

anthropic

Score: 4572

Distance: 179km

Lat: -47.5

Lng: -67.5


This image shows a gravel road with a guardrail in a vast, arid, flat landscape typical of Patagonia in Argentina. The sparse desert scrubland, the wide open flat horizon, the overcast sky, and the gravel road construction are all characteristic of the Patagonian steppe in southern Argentina. The terrain and vegetation strongly suggest this is in the Santa Cruz or Chubut province of Argentina.


openai/gpt-5-image-mini

openai

Score: 4821

Distance: 73km

Lat: -46.5

Lng: -69


Barren, windswept steppe with low tussock shrubs, gravel road and metal W-beam guardrail — landscape and vegetation strongly resemble Argentine Patagonia (Santa Cruz/Chubut region). The wide flat horizon, muted colors and remote unpaved road match high Patagonian steppe roads, so I placed the guess in central Patagonia near 46.5°S, 69°W.


MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5

moonshot

Score: 22

Distance: 10836km

Lat: 41

Lng: -117


This image shows a gravel or light-colored paved road with a metal guardrail on the left side, traversing an arid, elevated ridge with steep terrain dropping off to the left into a vast, flat valley or plain. The sparse vegetation consists of dry, golden-brown bunchgrasses and small shrubs typical of high desert steppe environments. The guardrail style, road construction, and overall landscape are characteristic of the American West, specifically the Great Basin region of northern Nevada or southeastern Oregon. The extremely flat horizon visible to the left suggests a broad interior basin or valley floor. The road appears to be following a ridge line with the guardrail protecting against the drop-off on the driver’s left side (consistent with right-hand traffic). Given the aridity, vegetation type, and terrain features, this location is most consistent with the high desert areas of northern Nevada, near the Oregon border, approximately around 41°N, 117°W. While Patagonian landscapes in Argentina can appear similar, the guardrail construction and road style are more typical of US highway standards.


Methodology Note

Each model receives the same Google Street View image. Models are tasked with guessing the location of the image using only visual clues from the street view. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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