The treaty divided the ( largely undiscovered ) world equally between the Spanish and the Portuguese, along a north-south meridian line 370 leagues ( 1770 km / 1100 miles ) west of the Cape Verde islands, with all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Spain.

The treaty established an imaginary line along a north-south meridian 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands, roughly 46 ° 37 ' W. In terms of the treaty, all land to the west of the line ( which is now known to include most of the South American soil ), would belong to Spain, and all land to the east, to Portugal.

In the west and the southwest, the Cape Ranges, the country's only " fold mountains "-- formed by the folding of the continental crust — form an " L ," where the north-south ranges meet several east-west ranges.

" In fact Cape St. Vincent is more westerly, but because it is further north, and Strabo's map of the Iberian Peninsula is rotated clockwise, bringing the Pyrenees into a north-south line, it could have been taken as further east.

Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in the Republic of South Africa.

The Diego Ramírez Islands () are a small group of lesser islands located in the southernmost extreme of Chile about south-west of Cape Horn and south-south-east of Ildefonso Islands, stretching north-south ( not to be confused with Ramirez Island far to the north ).

The link through Harare to Lusaka in Zambia is seen as the Cape to Cairo road, and the main north-south axis of Lusaka is named Cairo Road for this reason.

The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north-south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia.

The Transverse ranges run predominantly east-west, while the other coast ranges tend north-south, including the Central Coast Ranges to the north and the Peninsular Ranges to the south.

The Peninsular ranges run predominantly north-south, unlike the Transverse Ranges to their north, which mostly run east-west.

On January 11, 2010, the Auckland Regional Council opened the Hillary Trail, a 70 km trail running roughly north-south through the Waitakere Ranges, named in honour of the New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.

Ranges of hills run down to the coast in a generally north-south direction, in effect making the province of Imperia a succession of hills and valleys ending at the coast in rocky headlands and small pebbly bays.

Additionally, KY 185 is a north-south route connecting Bowling Green with points in Grayson County and points north which lie between I-65 ( which goes from Bowling Green to Elizabethtown and Louisville ) and the William H. Natcher Parkway from Bowling Green to Owensboro ; it enters Edmonson County near the community of Roundhill and passes north paralleling the Edmonson County-Butler County line before entering Grayson County south of Reedy.

The original town was basically a square with streets aligned north-south and east-west, split diagonally by the railroad with a line of lots paralleling either side of the tracks.

New York State Route 8 is a north-south highway paralleling the Unadilla River.

US Route 11 is a north-south highway in the eastern part of Onondaga, paralleling the interstate.

The town was built at the crossing of the Moscow road ( east-west ) and the Smolensk road ( north-south, paralleling the river ).

In the early 19th century, the construction of the Champlain Canal connected Lake Champlain to the Hudson River system, allowing north-south commerce by water from New York City to Montreal and Atlantic Canada.

In 1871, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad constructed a north-south railroad through this area, while the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad built an east-west line that ran through Vinita.

The City is accessible by land via the Garden State Parkway, a major north-south artery which is adjacent to the City and provides access to New York City, and via the Atlantic City Expressway, which is

It has become a resort town of note located centrally north-south along the Atlantic Seaboard of South Carolina.

The Mississippi embayment represents a break in what was once a single, continuous mountain range comprising the modern Appalachian range, which runs roughly on a north-south axis along the Atlantic coast of the United States, and the Ouachita range, which runs on a rough east-west axis west of the Mississippi River.

* a more westerly variety of the Atlantic zone ( to the west of an imaginary line running north-south and linking Oviedo and Mérida ), where there is a corpus of Latin inscriptions containing some linguistic features that are clearly Celtic ( Gallaecian ).

Map of Loch RyanLoch Ryan is orientated on a north-south axis, its mouth looking northward into the North Atlantic and Firth of Clyde, and the town of Stranraer sitting on its southern shores.

The north-south extent of the province ( 46 ° 36 ′ N to 60 ° 22 ′ N ), prevalent westerly winds, cold ocean currents and local factors such as mountains and coastline combine to create the various climates of the province.

Jamaica Bay is located adjacent to the confluence of the New York Bight and New York Bay, and is at the turning point of the primarily east-west oriented coastline of New England and Long Island and the north-south oriented coastline of the mid-Atlantic coast.

Island II had a coastline facing Guanahani that ran north-south for five leagues, and another coastline (" which I followed ", says Columbus ) that ran east-west for more than ten leagues.

BR-116 runs in a north-south way, near, but not in Brazil's coastline.

A third hypothesis maintains that the trench is continuous through the continental margin right up to the northeastern Taiwan coastline, also without the existence of a dextral north-south trending fault.

The area of the north-south coastline is 41. 3 hectares, and the coastal vegetation line range is 36. 6 hectares.

In a north-south direction, it mainly follows the coastline of the provinces Södermanland and Uppland, reaching roughly from Öja island, south of Nynäshamn to Väddö north of Norrtälje.

Other major ranges include the Rangrim Mountains, which are located in the north-central part of North Korea and run in a north-south direction, making communication between the eastern and western parts of the country rather difficult ; and the Kangnam Range, which runs along the North Korea – China border.

Other important federal highways though Memphis include the east-west U. S. Route 70, U. S. Route 64, and U. S. Route 72 ; and the north-south U. S. Route 51 and U. S. Route 61.

Major highways through Windham County include Interstate 395, which runs north-south from the New London County line at Plainfield to the Massachusetts state line at Thompson.

Other north-south routes include Route 12, which parallels I-395 through many local communities, Route 169, a National Scenic Byway traveling through rural communities from the New London County line in Canterbury to the Massachusetts state line in Woodstock.

Primary roadways include U. S. Route 29, U. S. Route 501, U. S. Route 221, running north-south, and U. S. Highway 460, running east-west.

Major north-south routes include:

Major transportation corridors include County Line Road ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Sandalwood Drive ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Singleton Road ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Cherry Valley Boulevard ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Avenue " L " ( runs east-west from the freeway ) Myrtlewood Drive ( runs east-west from Calimesa Boulevard to California Street ) Calimesa Boulevard ( runs north-south, parallels freeway from Live Oak Canyon Road in Yucaipa to Cherry Valley Boulevard near Beaumont ), and Bryant Street ( runs north-south from Highway 38 / Mill Creek Road / Mentone Boulevard and connects with Singleton Road ).

Major east-west thoroughfares include El Camino Avenue, Marconi Avenue, Arden Way, Alta Arden Expressway, and Fair Oaks Boulevard while major north-south thoroughfares include Fulton Avenue, Watt Avenue, Howe Avenue, and Eastern Avenue.

Major north-south routes near Crocker include:

Major north-south routes near Dixon include:

Major north-south routes include:

Major north-south routes near St. Robert include:

Highways serving Pendleton include Interstate 84 and U. S. Route 30 running east-west and U. S. Route 395 running north-south.

Major north-south streets crossing the City include Boundary Road, Willingdon Avenue, Royal Oak Avenue, Kensington Avenue, Sperling Avenue, Gaglardi Way, Cariboo Road, and North Road.

The expansion will include an A5 north-south bypass west of the town and improvements to the links to the A43.

Major north-south roads through the suburb include Middleborough Road and Blackburn Road ; both connect to the Eastern Freeway.

Other streets in Chicago that run both north-south and east-west include Wacker Drive, Sheridan Road, and Hyde Park Blvd.

Other main streets include Park Road, Belvedere Road, Brooklyn Road, Pembroke Street and Holloway Street ( which all run approximately east-west ) and Lincoln Road ( which runs approximately north-south ).

The main Routes through Frenchs Forest include the east-west Warringah Road ( State route 29 ), connecting Roseville in the west with Brookvale in the east ; the north-south Forestway, starting at Warringah Road in Frenchs Forest and heading north through Belrose to Terrey Hills ( 8 km ); the north-south Wakehurst Parkway ( State route 22 ), starting at Narrabeen in the northeast, crossing Warringah road in Frenchs Forest, and heading south to Seaforth.

Other major surface streets include Base Line Road, Arrow Route, 4th Street / San Bernardino Avenue, and Valley Boulevard running east-west and Archibald Avenue, Sierra Avenue, and Riverside Avenue running north-south.