List of South America hurricanes

The continent is rarely affected by tropical cyclones, though most storms to hit the area are formed in the North Atlantic Ocean.

[citation needed] Although conditions are typically too hostile for many storms to hit the area from the South Atlantic Ocean, there have been a few tropical cyclones to affect land.

The westernmost is the border between Panama and Colombia, and the easternmost is Georgetown, Guyana, located at 6.82° N. In the eastern Pacific Ocean, tropical cyclone warning breakpoints extend eastward to the border of Panama and Colombia at 7.23° N.[74] No Atlantic hurricane has existed south of 6.82° N,[75] and no Pacific hurricane has existed east of 80° W,[76] though in the event a tropical cyclone threatens a region of South America without warnings, additional warning sites can be selected.

[74] Intense Hurricane Flora in 1963 prompted officials to declare gale warnings for two islands off the north coast of Venezuela.

[77] In 1974, the passage of Tropical Storm Alma warranted the issuance of Gale Warnings for the Paria and Paraguaná Peninsulas.