Map Of North And South America With Equator. Along the equator running from the pacific ocean eastward to the atlantic ocean is a wide climate zone of the continent that is tropical humid and wet. There are exceptions as some continents and their countries based on the straight line divisions of the equator and prime meridian are a.

South america climate varies widely due to the sheer size of the continent its geographical location winds and ocean currents south america s climate is dominated by relatively warm regions yet the continent can generally be grouped into 4 zones tropical cold dry and temperate. Equator longitude is 111 kilometers from each other. The southern hemisphere includes most of south america one third of africa all of antarctica a small sliver of asia parts of indonesia and all of australia oceania.

Also the equator traverses the territories of two island nations but does not make a landfall in either.

The tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn in the north and south of equator are considered as equatorial regions. Map of north and south america click to see large. This map shows governmental boundaries of countries in north and south america. Latitudes are the progressive angular measurements north or south of the equator are the imaginary lines running from east to west on the earth s surface.