Central and South America - Location and Climate T he climate of South America varies dramatically from Equatorial tropics in the northern jungles of Colombia and Panama, to freezing tundra at the southern tip. Some tropical parts are simply uninhabitable, and plagued by disease But other, apparently hostile, environments could yield surprisingly good prospects. The high plateaus of the Mexican interior, and the Andes, several kilometres above sea level, are milder than expected and, once acclimatised to the altitude, humans could live here quite profitably. Back | Next