northern chile weather conditions july rainfall

The continent of South America is a very extensive continent in the North-South direction. Its northern most part the Gulf of Venezuela is at about 10 degrees north while the southern most tip Cape Horn is almost at about 55 degrees south of equator. As we know that chief factor affecting the climate of a place is the latitude so we can expect a wide variation in the climate of South America. Interestingly it is not so. The reason being that this continent has a conic shape and it becomes narrower and narrower as we go towards the southern latitudes and due to the combined influence of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, extreme variations in the temperatures are not present.