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Horse latitudes are subtropical latitudes (30-35 degrees), where winds are light and weather is hot and dry. Ships traveling to the New World were often becalmed in this region and had to throw any horses overboard in order to preserve precious water supplies, hence the name horse latitudes.

HORSE LATITUDES - Online Information article about HORSE LATITUDES (437 words)
	HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf.
	HORSE LATITUDES, the belts of calms and variable breezes at the polar edge of the N.E. and S.E. trades.
	HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such...

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	horse latitudes, two belts of latitude where winds are light and the weather is hot and dry.
	The horse latitudes are associated with the subtropical anticyclone and the large-scale descent of air from high-altitude currents moving toward the poles.
	The belt in the Northern Hemisphere is sometimes called the "calms of Cancer" and that in the Southern Hemisphere the "calms of Capricorn." The term horse latitudes supposedly originates from the days when Spanish sailing vessels transported horses to the West Indies.

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