Abstract
The Carrington Event was a spectacular blaze of light observed on the solar surface on September 1, 1859, produced by intense activity occurring in the Sun and having remarkable consequences on Earth, e.g. extraordinary aurorae reported during the dawn on September 2th. The supreme solar-terrestrial event is the most energetic of which we have records and the associated geomagnetic storm produced a major auroral oval that expanded towards the equator of the planet. In this work we show, based on historical evidence, that the associated aurorae displayed in Montería, Colombia, at latitude 8° 45' N. We propose that the location of the Earth's geomagnetic north pole, the lowest in at least five centuries, added to the very energetic solar event, allowed the aurora to reach such low latitudes.
