Assertion: sphere's area | /r/HasProperty | separated by torrid zone
Facets:
value: near the equator
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In his Meteorology he divided the world into five climatic zones: two temperate areas separated by a torrid zone near the equator, and two cold inhospitable regions, "one near our upper or northern pole and the other near the ... southern pole," both impenetrable and girdled with ice (Meteorologica, 362a31–35).