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Supposedly, the term originates from ships traveling to the . Air often sinks toward the Earth's surface at horse latitudes.

The horse latitudes help to explain the existence of deserts in these regions, such as the Sahara Desert in Africa, the deserts in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico , and the dry Middle East in the Northern Hemisphere, and the arid regions of South Africa and the Australian Desert in the south.


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