
Brazil / Travel & Tours – The tropical
climate zone
(also called tropics or torrid zone) lies between the
subtropics and is centered around the equator.
It is limited by the
Tropic of Cancer (23,5° N) in the northern hemisphere and by the
Tropic of Capricorn (23,5° S) in the southern hemisphere.
The angle of the plane of the
sun´s apparent path
varies between 90 and 66,5 degrees and the angle of the sun´s rays
(
Solar Altitude) between 90 und 43 degrees.
Day length varies between +/- 0 to +/- 1,5 h from the average 12 h at the
Equinox and average temperatures are between 26 and 22 degrees Celsius.
When you travel to
Brazil, the humid
Amazon Rainforest and part of the
Atlantic Rainforest
(north of
São Paulo), the semi - dry
Cerrado Savanna and the dry
Caatinga Desert belong to this climate zone
– Adventure Travel / Brazil.