the American tropics definition

the American tropics means those parts of the continent of America, including adjacent islands, which are bounded by the Tropic of Capricorn (latitude 23 1/2ºS) and the Tropic of Cancer (latitude 23 1/2ºN) and the meridians of longitude 30ºW and 120ºW, and includes the part of Mexico north of the Tropic of Cancer;

Examples of the American tropics in a sentence

  • Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics (Anthony F.

  • The domestic architecture of the earliest British colonies in the American tropics: A study of the houses of the Caribbean ‘Leeward’ islands of St. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat.