[WikiEN-l] ABOUT LATITUDE.

[Ray Saintonge]

jairo wrote:

>Gentlemen, wishing you a fine day.
>
>Wikipedia overwhelms me. Thanks.¡
>
>Please, on your page for The United States of America, at the very end of it, "Countries in  North America" you do mention all of them: but, how about Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and French Guayana.? This Countries are all located above the Ecuatorial line and
>we are more subject to the North Hemisphere Winter than to the Southern one. So, are we
>South Americans or North Americans.?
>
The term South America ordinarily relates to the large continental land 
mass that happens to be relatively more southerly than North America.  
(Even some Mexicans would not call themselves Norteamericanos.)  It has 
nothing to do with the placement of the equator.  At one time Panamà was 
considered a part of South America.  That gradually changed after the 
United States swindled it away from Colombia.

Ec (from the one country where the people of the United States could be 
considered sudamericanos.)