35.5 North, 106 West
Latitude: 23.634501° Longitude: -102.552784°
lines of latitude
latitude?
The center of Mexico City is located at 19.42° north latitude 99.13° west longitude. Would you ask someone "What line on the ruler is closest to your height ?" I'm guessing you'd ask him "How tall are you ?" Forget about "lines". There is no standard set of of latitude and longitude lines from which you have to choose one that's somewhere close.
Each 'meridian' is a line of constant longitude.
Santa Fe is located at 36N and 106W
Every meridian of longitude is perpendicular to every parallel of latitude, and every parallel of latitude is perpendicular to every meridian of longitude.
Latitude.
Latitude and longitude
The lines that intercept latitude lines are lines of longitude.
Longitude lines go vertically and latitude lines go horizontally.
Every parallel of latitude crosses every meridian of longitude.