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The terminator is visible in this panoramic view across central South America. The geography of South America contains many diverse regions and climates. Geographically, South America is generally considered a continent forming the southern portion of the landmass of the Americas, south and east of the Colombia–Panama border by most ...
English: Köppen–Geiger climate classification map for South America العربية: خريطةٌ مفصّلةٌ تُصنّف أنواع المناخات في مختلفِ مناطق أمريكا اللاتينيّة.
Köppen-Geiger climate classification map for South America [35] All of the world's major climate zones are present in South America. [36] The distribution of the average temperatures in the region presents a constant regularity from the 30° of latitude south, when the isotherms tend, more and more, to be confused with the degrees of latitude ...
Throughout the year, the South Pacific High influences the climate by bringing cold, moist air masses originating from Patagonia. [25] [26] During the most intense cold waves, they form when a transient high pressure system located in the South Pacific Ocean moves eastwards to the southern tip of South America.
The arid diagonal can be seen in the form of the almost contiguous zone of BWh and BWk climate (red and pink on this map) running from Ecuador to Southern Patagonia. The Arid Diagonal (Spanish: diagonal árida/arreica ) is a contiguous zone of arid and semi-arid climate that traverses South America from coastal Peru in the Northwest to ...
Some of the places with this climate are indeed uniformly and monotonously wet throughout the year (e.g., the northwest Pacific coast of South and Central America, from Ecuador to Costa Rica; see, for instance, Andagoya, Colombia), but in many cases, the period of higher sun and longer days is distinctly wettest (as at Palembang, Indonesia) or ...
Climate of Peru describes the diverse climates of this large South American country with an area of 1,285,216 km 2 (496,225 sq mi). Peru is located entirely in the tropics but features desert and mountain climates as well as tropical rainforests .
Patagonia (Spanish pronunciation: [pataˈɣonja]) is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west and deserts, tablelands, and steppes to the east.