The Sierra de la Laguna in the Baja California Peninsula, as well as the western Sierra Madre Occidental and the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental, are the three mountain ranges crossed by the Tropic of Cancer (23.43713º) in Mexico.
My thought is that this navigator was killed on an place on the Tropic of Cancer. On a mountain top while running from the murders.
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The Tropic of Cancer is closer; it's in the northern hemisphere.
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The Tropic of Cancer is farther north.