Description: A map of Heat Belts in South America. "There is comparatively little difference between the temperatures of winter and summer in South America. Most of the lowlands are always hot; in the extreme south they are stormy, chilly, and disagreeable, butuj seldom very cold; the elevated plateaus of the Andes are always temperate, and the higher summits of this chain always cold. It is only a comparatively narrow belt that there is a notable difference between the temperatures of summer and winter, and in this region the winters are seldom cold enough for the formation of ice. The most plainly marked seasons are the wet and dry, and they are determined by the position of the equatorial rain belt." &mdashRedway, 1898.
Source: Jacques W. Redway and Russell Hinman, Natural Advanced Geography (New York, NY: American Book Company , 1898) 104
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman. |
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