ellisile:
My post did answer your inquiry, because you asked (per your original thread question, which you've since changed in your OP), "The Naked Jungle: Where are they in South America?". I replied that they were in the Amazon region of Brazil, which is correct, what you asked, and what you confirmed when you updated your OP. The Rio Negro is indeed another tip-off that this is Brazil.
Specifically, in that post you wrote:
Eleanor Parker mentions to Charlton Heston that it is not Hot as she thought it would be and that was because they were in the Southern area. Where? If they are further South and closer to the very Southern part of Continent and Antarctica. Where are they? Paraguay? Bolivia? Argentina? Uruguay? Southern most tip of Brazil? The South Atlantic Ocean, is colder and more turbulent.
Then in your most recent post you wrote:
The conversation that took place in the film ''The Naked Jungle'' between Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston, Parker said she thought it would be Hotter where they were but because they were in South America apparently she felt it was cooler. Whether they were near the Equator or not, it was still warm and being from New Orleans she was use to the heat.
Your statements are rather confusedly written so it's hard to figure out exactly what you mean, but Parker didn't exactly say either of the things you claim she said. Her remark on the climate was only to indicate that it wasn't as hot as she was expecting it to be. Yes, it was still warm -- which is why your speculation in your first post about their being further down in the continent makes no real sense. The fact that she was from New Orleans and therefore used to the heat has nothing to do with her thinking Brazil wasn't as warm as she had expected.
You then concluded:
The entire Southern part of United States is very Hot even if the Equator is farther South. There was nothing said about the Equator in the film, but it was Hot no matter what.
There may have been nothing said about the equator in the film but the reason it was "Hot no matter what" is because they're
in an area near the equator. (By the way, the word "hot" is not capitalized.)
I don't know how much you know about American climates, but while it's true that the southern United States does get hot in the summer and is generally warmer than the northern part of the country because it
is farther south, its winters and most of its spring and fall are relatively cool, and even very cold in many places. Yes, proximity to the equator is not necessary for it to be hot, but obviously the closer one is to the equator the hotter a climate will generally be.
Having lived in New Orleans, which for much of the year is hot and humid, Parker would be used to heat much of the time. But she's now living in a climate that is normally hot year-round with little change. This is becasue the climates of Amazonian Brazil and the American South are significantly different. In the Amazon the fact that the equator runs through the region means it's hot all year round with little variation. While New Orleans is usually moderately cool-to-warm most of the year and in hot in summer, it, and the rest of the American South, experience wide fluctuations in temperature during the year, in contrast to the Amazon Basin where the plantation in this film is located and temperatures are fairly constant.
And while temperatures vary somewhat across Brazil, on the whole most of the country is hot. By contrast, temperatures within the U.S. vary very widely not only between different sections of the country but within those different sections as well.
Your last sentence,
Brazil and the United States are nearly the same size in land area, both are huge.
is true but utterly irrelevant to the question of temperature or anything else in the film.
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